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The paper focuses on the work of Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) in. sense of the role played by Romantic Naturphilosophie in the development of Germany at the turn of the nineteenth century. It first focuses on the role. and his Wiirzburg circle in the development of Oken's early views on.
May 29, 2018 · OKEN (OR OKENFUSS), LORENZ. ( b. Bohlsbach bei Offenburg, Baden, Germany, 1 August 1779; d. 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 ...
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Oken and Geoffroy within his own, idiosyncratic system. Although Darwin knew of Oken's ideas, it was Geoffroy who really affected his evolutionary biology, and any influence of Oken must have been attenuated to the point of triviality. Introduction Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of biology.
Abstract. Following the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, many naturalists adopted the idea that living organisms were the historical outcome of gradual transformation of lifeless matter. These views soon merged with the developments of biochemistry and cell biology and led to proposals in which the origin of protoplasm was equated ...
- Antonio Lazcano
- 2010
Mar 2, 2018 · This idea stimulated the concept of German philosopher Lorenz Oken (1779–1851) that all organisms are composed of “infusoria” and “Urbläschen” (primordial bubbles) as basic life units; this speculation directly preceded the works of the first empirical cell biologists (Canguilhem 2008; Harris 2000). However, it was only the invention ...
- Juraj Sekeres, Juraj Sekeres, Viktor Zarsky, Viktor Zarsky
- 2018
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 ...
Moreover, his system ‘tightly integrates the description, classification, anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of living beings’.11 It is thus not surprising that Oken defines his account of living beings as ‘biology’, a notion used since 1802 (when it appeared as the title of Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus’s work) to describe ...
