Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Gaupp (13 July 1865 – 23 November 1916) was a Germananatomist fromBeuthen inUpper Silesia (today Bytom, Poland).

He studiednatural sciences and medicine inJena,Königsberg andBreslau, where he received his doctorate in 1889. Afterwards he worked as an anatomist inFreiburg im Breisgau,Königsberg and Breslau (1915).

Gaupp is best remembered for his research involving the morphological development of thecranium invertebrates. He is credited for establishing the basis and methodology for modern investigations regarding themorphology andmorphogenesis of crania. WithKarl Bogislaus Reichert (1811-1883), he was co-architect of theReichert–Gaupp theory involving the origin of mammalianossicles of theear.^[1]

• Zur Kenntnis des Primordial-Craniums der Amphibien und Reptilien. (Regarding the primordial cranium ofamphibians andreptiles) In: Verh. Anat. Ges. 5: 114–120, 1891.
• A. Ecker's und R. Wiedersheim's Anatomie des Frosches, Auf Grund eigener Untersuchungen durchaus neu bearbeitet (Alexander Ecker's andRobert Wiedersheim'sAnatomy of Frogs, a new edition by Ernst Gaupp); 2 and 3 Aufl. 1896, 1904.
• Alte Probleme und neuere Arbeiten ueber den Wirbeltierschaedel (Old problems and new research on the vertebrate cranium). In: Erg. Anat. Entw. 10: 847–1001, 1900.
• Die Reichertsche Theorie, Hammer-, Amboss- und Kieferfrage. (The Reichert theory,hammer-,anvil- andjaw question) In: Arch. Anat. Suppl. 1912: 1–416
• August Weismann, sein Leben und sein Werk edited byEugen Fischer (August Weismann, his life and work) 1917.^[2]

• "This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at theGerman Wikipedia", source listed as:E. Fischer: Ernst Gaupp In: Anatomischer Anzeiger. 1917, 49, S. 584–591.

• 1865 births
• 1916 deaths
• German anatomists
• People from Bytom
• Scientists from the Province of Silesia
• University of Jena alumni
• University of Königsberg alumni
• Academic staff of the University of Königsberg
• University of Breslau alumni
• Academic staff of the University of Breslau
• Academic staff of the University of Freiburg

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata