Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer

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Johann Christophe Andreas Mayer (December 8, 1747 – November 5, 1801)^[1] was a German anatomist.^[2]

Mayer worked in Berlin and later Frankfurt. In 1788, he was the first European to recognize that fingerprints were unique to each individual.^[3][4]

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