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May 29, 2018 · In Die Zeugung Oken postulated that life began on the seashore as Urschleim (primal mucous plasm) of “infusoria,” cells whose agglomerations and combinations formed into organisms (Engelhardt, 1997).
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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books were printed and reprinted until the principles of cell theory, established by Theodor Schwann (1801-1882), superceded his work. The strong opinions of romanticism were eventually overridden by the emergence of experimental natural science.
The CELL THEORY, or cell doctrine, states that all organisms are composed of similar units of organization, called cells. The concept was formally articulated in 1839 by Schleiden & Schwann and has remained as the foundation of modern biology.
The paper focuses on the work of Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) in an attempt to make sense of the role played by Romantic Naturphilosophie in the development of natural history in Germany at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Harris points out that it was not until 1805 that the biologist Lorenz Oken had the prescient intuition of the fundamental homology between the ‘little animals’ of Leeuwenhoek and the...
- 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.
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).
