Which scientists supported Luigi Galvani during the animal-electricity controversy?

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During the scientific controversy regarding the nature of electricity in living tissue, Luigi Galvani’s position—which argued that animal tissue contained an innate "animal electricity"—was supported by the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.1

While Galvani’s findings were initially accepted by many of his colleagues, they were famously challenged by Alessandro Volta, who contended that the electricity was generated by the contact of dissimilar metals rather than the animal tissue itself. This disagreement divided the scientific community into two camps, with Volta receiving support from Coulomb and other French physicists.21