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- Oken, Lorenz (born August 1, 1779, Bohlsbach, Swabia —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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Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist.
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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Lorenz Oken. 1779-1851. German Natural Scientist. Lorenz Oken, a proponent of natural science and philosophy, asserted that there are fundamental units of life, which he called "infusoria."
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.
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.
LORENZ OKEN (1779-1851), German naturalist, was born at Bohlsbach, Swabia, on the 1st of August 1779. His real name was Lorenz Ockenfuss, and under that name he was entered at the natural history and medical classes in the university of Wiirzburg, whence he proceeded to that of Gottingen, where he became a privat-docent, and abridged his name ...
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.
