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Apr 19, 2024 · Oken, Lorenz (born August 1, 1779, Bohlsbach, Swabia [Germany]—died August 11, 1851, Zürich, Switzerland) 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.
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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. It first focuses on the role played by Schelling and his Würzburg circle in the development of Oken's early views on ...
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Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Biography [ edit ] 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 .
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 ...
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.
Like many physicians and physiologists of their time, the Naturphilosophie thinkers postulated vital forces as explanations for the activities of individual living beings and used organic metaphors (growth, development, maturity, decay) to describe the activity of living nature as a whole.3 These ideas played a role in the formulation of ...
Lorenz Oken. Romantic ^ ence was science mechanistic would and mathem appear tical; to Romanticism be a contradiction was quali ative in terms. Sci and organic. Romanticism deplored the Newtonian system "which saw in. man a puny, irrelevant spectator . . . of the vast mathematical system whose regular motions according to mechanical principles ...
