Table 2.

The major exponents of the birth and development of otology in the nineteenth century.

French School	German School
Antoine Saissy (1756–1822) Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1775–1838) Gilbert Breschet (1784–1845) Pierre-Marie Flourens (1794–1867) Nicholas Deleau the Younger (1797–1862) Prosper Menière (1798–1862) Marcellin Emile Hubert-Valleroux (1812–1884) Alexandre Louis Paul Blanchet (1819–1867)	Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878) Emil Huschke (1797–1858) Wilhelm Kramer (1801–1875) Eduard Schmalz (1801–1871) Carl Gustav Lincke (1804–1849) Gabriel Gustav Valentin (1810–1883) Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894) Ernst Reissner (1824–1878) Anton Friedrich von Tröltsch (1828–1867) Otto Friedrich Karl Deiters (1834–1863) Ádám Politzer (1835–1920) Hermann Schwartze (1837–1910)
English school	Italian school
William Robert Wilde (1773–1860) John Cunningham Saunders (1773–1810) William Wright (1773–1860) Samuel Akery (1785–1845) Henry Jones Shrapnell (1792–1834) James Yearsley (1805–1869) Joseph Toynbee (1815–1866)	Carlo Giovanni Brugnone (1741–1816) Alfonso Corti (1822–1876) Demetrio Bargellini (1823–1899) Giuseppe Gradenigo (1859–1926) Vittorio Grazzi (1849–1929) Vincenzo Cozzolino (1853–1911)