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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.
Apr 19, 2024 · Oken, Lorenz 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. He elaborated Wolfgang.
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His general ideas about the elemental structures of living organisms, though specifically incorrect, anticipated the subsequent identification of the cell and development of cell theory. He was also a founder of scientific congresses or meetings.
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).
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 ...
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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...
In 1805 the German naturalist Lorenz Oken wrote a small booklet titled The Creation, in which stated that “all organic beings originate from and consist of vesicles of cells.”
