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Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Biography [ edit ] 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 .
Apr 19, 2024 · Oken, Lorenz (born August 1, 1779, Bohlsbach, Swabia [Germany]—died August 11, 1851, Zürich, Switzerland) was a German naturalist, the most important of the early 19th-century German “nature philosophers,” who speculated about the significance of life, which they believed to be derived from a vital force that could not be understood totally through scientific means.
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One of his greatest contributions to science was the creation of scientific congresses outside the university setting. His first meeting was held in Leipzig in 1822. A prolific writer, Oken's books were printed and reprinted until the principles of cell theory, established by Theodor Schwann (1801-1882), superceded his work.
May 29, 2018 · Zurich, Switzerland, 11 August 1851) natural science, philosophy, scientific congresses. The son of poor farmers in the Black Forest, Oken studied at the universities of Freiburg, Würzburg, and Göttingen. In 1803, at the age of twenty-four, he published a system of, Naturphilosophie, thereby marking his adherence to the school of thought ...
By the end the reader will have acquired an extremely detailed idea of the origin of every fundamental contribution in the conceptual edifice of cell theory. ... Lorenz Oken had the prescient ...
- Paolo Mazzarello
- 2000
Jul 8, 2020 · On the other hand, Oken prefigured the fundamental concept of cell theory in his book Die Zeugung (Oken Footnote 1, Lorenz: Die Zeugung. Bamberg und Würzburg, Goebhardt, 1805). His prescient theory described all organisms as composed of so-called infusoria (i.e., single cells) that divide.
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cleus, but his ideas of a community of cell type structures have been lauded in many quarters as a pioneering effort in cell theory.7 When the first fertilized mammalian ovum was identified and described by Carl Ernst von Baer in 1828, he acknowledged Oken's early contribution and singled out Generation as a seminal work in the field.
