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   Alma mater. University of Halle. Known for. gynécologue. Scientific career. Fields. gynécologue. Signature. Caspar Friedrich Wolff (18 January 1733 – 22 February 1794) was a German physiologist and embryologist who is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern embryology.

   • Fields: gynécologue
   • Alma mater: University of Halle

   • Known for: gynécologue
   • Nationality: German

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   Jul 7, 2009 · Wolff was born in Berlin, Germany, on 18 January 1734 to Anna Sofia Stiebeler and Johann Wolff, a tailor. He studied medicine at the Collegium Medico-Chirurgicum in Berlin from 1753 to 1754 and then enrolled at the University of Halle, graduating in 1759 with his MD. The controversy created by his dissertation, with its assertions challenging ...

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   • Other articles where Caspar Friedrich Wolff is discussed: zoology: Embryology, or developmental studies: …in 1759 the German physician Caspar Friedrick Wolff firmly introduced into biology the interpretation that undifferentiated materials gradually become specialized, in an orderly way, into adult structures.

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   • German Physiologist and Embryologist K aspar Friedrich Wolff, the author of Theory of Generation (1759), revived the theory of epigenesis during a period in which many of the most respected naturalists were advocates of preformationist theory.

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   • According to the Wolffian system of philosophy, it was impossible for rational beings to believe that something might come out of nothing. In 1759 Kaspar Wolff completed a dissertation entitled Theory of Generation, which became a landmark in the history of embryology. His work, however, brought him little recognition during his lifetime.

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   • In 1759 Kaspar Wolff completed a dissertation entitled Theory of Generation, which became a landmark in the history of embryology. His work, however, brought him little recognition during his lifetime. After serving as an army surgeon, he gave private lectures on pathology and medicine in Berlin.

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   Jan 18, 2019 · Ontogenesis of a chick, drawn by Caspar Friedrich Wolff. On January 18, 1734, German physiologist Caspar Friedrich Wolff was born. He is recognized as one of the founders of embryology. In Theoria Generationis ( 1759) he first wrote an epigenetic theory of development: that the organs of living things take shape gradually from non-specific tissue.

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   May 21, 2018 · WOLFF, CASPAR FRIEDRICH. ( b. Berlin, Germany, 18 January 1734; d. St. Petersburg, Russia [now Leningrad, U.S.S.R.], 22 February 1794) biology. Wolff was the son of Johann Wolff, a tailor who moved to Berlin in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, and Anna Sofia Stiebeler. He studied medicine at the Medical-Surgical College in ...

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   Kaspar Friedrich Wolff. 1733-1794. German Physiologist and Embryologist. K aspar Friedrich Wolff, the author of Theory of Generation (1759), revived the theory of epigenesis during a period in which many of the most respected naturalists were advocates of preformationist theory. According to the theory of epigenesis, an embryo is gradually ...

7. embryology.med.unsw.edu.au › embryology › indexEmbryology History - Caspar Wolff - Embryology

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   Introduction. Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1734-1794) was a German embryologist and anatomist best known today for the structures bearing his name: & Wolffian body - mesonephros. Thought also to be a founder of the germ layer theory. His doctorate dissertation Theoria generationis (1774) discarded the developmental theory of preformation.

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   Other articles where Caspar Friedrich Wolff is discussed: zoology: Embryology, or developmental studies: …in 1759 the German physician Caspar Friedrick Wolff firmly introduced into biology the interpretation that undifferentiated materials gradually become specialized, in an orderly way, into adult structures. Although this epigenetic process is now accepted as characterizing the general ...