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OKEN, Lorenz (1779 – 1851)

OKEN, Lorenz (1779 – 1851)

1779 – 1851

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1805 CE

#106

Die Zeugung.

Oken maintained that all organic beings originate from, and consist of, cells, and that organisms are produced by an agglomeration of these cells.

1807 CE

#199

Ueber die Bedeutung der Schädelknochen.

Oken’s vertebral theory of the skull.

1817 CE–1848 CE

#107

Isis, oder encyclopädische Zeitung (verzüglich für Naturgeschichte, vergleichende Anatomie und Physiologie), VON OKEN. 41 vols.

Lorenz Oken, a leading light in the Nature-Philosophical School in Germany, produced important work in the field of biology. He founded the journal Isis, which published articles of great value; its incursion into the…