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Oken studied the bones, intestines, and umbilical cord, and established basic ideas about elementary units of living organisms, which he called the "infusoria." He believed all flesh is made of these infusoria and called them "animalcules" or little animals.
LORENZ OKEN (1779-1851). Under this name the great naturalist of the transcendental or deductive school is commonly known ; but his real name was Lorenz Ockenfuss, under which he was baptized at Bohlsbach, Baden, being born in that small Swabian village on the 1st of August 1779. As Ockenfuss he was entered at the natural history and medical ...
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Biography. Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss ( German: Okenfuß) in Bohlsbach (now part of Offenburg ), Ortenau, Baden, and studied natural history and medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Würzburg. He went on to the University of Göttingen, where he became a Privatdozent (unsalaried lecturer), and shortened his name to Oken.
In this essay, ‘Die Zeugung’ (The generation (1805)), Oken argues that all organic beings originate from and consist of vesicles or cells, and that these vesicles are the infusoria according to which all larger organisms fashion themselves.
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Jul 8, 2020 · His prescient theory described all organisms as composed of so-called infusoria (i.e., single cells) that divide. Oken meant that organisms consist of those small vesicles (infusoria) which derive from a primordial soup.
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Oken, Lorenz (1779-1851) German naturalist who was a leader in the Naturphilosophie movement. Oken's views were mystical, including speculations on nothing, something, motion, God, and the geometric form of the universe. His prolific speculations, however, foreshadowed cell theory, as in the idea that all tissues were composed of a "fundamental ...
Der Mann und sein Werk. Berlin, 1922. Hermann Boeschenstein (1967) OKEN, LORENZ (1779–1855) Lorenz Oken, a German biologist and philosopher, was born at Bohlsbach, Baden. He was graduated from the faculty of medicine at Freiburg in 1804 and obtained his first professorship in medicine at Jena in 1807. Source for information on Oken, Lorenz ...
