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Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist . 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.
Lorenz Oken, eigentlich Lorenz Okenfuß (* 1. August 1779 in Bohlsbach, heute zu Offenburg, Ortenau; † 11. August 1851 in Zürich ), war ein deutscher Mediziner, Naturphilosoph, Naturforscher und Biologe, vergleichender Anatom und Physiologe. Er gilt als bedeutendster Vertreter einer romantisch-spekulativen Naturphilosophie schellingscher Prägung.
L orenz Oken, a proponent of natural science and philosophy, asserted that there are fundamental units of life, which he called "infusoria." 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.
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Among other important theorists of morphology are Lorenz Oken, Georges Cuvier, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Richard Owen, Carl Gegenbaur and Ernst Haeckel. [5] [6] In 1830, Cuvier and E.G.Saint-Hilaire engaged in a famous debate , which is said to exemplify the two major deviations in biological thinking at the time – whether animal ...
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. Oken left Jena in 1819 because as editor of the liberal periodical Isis he had incurred the disfavor of the authorities.
Lorenz Oken (1 de agosto de 1779 - 11 de agosto de 1851), originalmente Lorenz Ockenfuss, fue un naturalista alemán, uno de los representantes más sobresalientes de la Naturphilosophie . Biografía [ editar] Nacido en Bohlsbach, Suabia, y apellidado originalmente Ockenfuss, estudió Historia Natural y Medicina en la Universidad de Würzburg.
