The discovery and annotated publication of the typescript from 1843 in the library archives of the University of Giessen was a scientific sensation
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Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society, and the first president of the Russian Entomological Society, making him one…
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science · Baltic German scientist (1792–1876) · explorer · anthropologist · zoologist · physician · entomologist · professor · botanist · land owner · botanical collector · physiologist · also Karl Ernst von Baer, Karl Maksimovich Ber, Baer, Carl Ernst von Baer, K. E. von Baer, C. E. von Baer
Born 17 February 1792 · Died 16 November 1876 · Q57190
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1876· 2 entries
Died 1876-11-16.
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Did Oscar Hertwig prove that fertilization is due to fusion of an egg and sperm cell
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1875· 1 entry
Became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1873· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1873).
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1869· 1 entry
Charles Darwin added a Historical Sketch giving due credit to naturalists who had preceded him in publishing the opinion that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life have descended by true gener
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1867· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1867).
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1866· 1 entry
“Über Prof. Nic. Wagner's Entdeckung von Larven die sich fortpflanzen, und über die Pädogenesis überhaupt”
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1859· 1 entry
“Von Baer, towards whom all zoologists feel so profound a respect, expressed about the year 1859... his conviction, chiefly grounded on the laws of geographical distribution, that forms now perfectly distinct have descended from a single parent-form.”
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1854· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1854).
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1852· 1 entry
Was conferred the title of Honorary Fellow of the University of Tartu
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1849· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign honorary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1834· 1 entry
Baer moved back to St Petersburg and joined the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, first in zoology (1834–46) and then in comparative anatomy and physiology (1846–62)
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1831· 1 entry
Awarded Montyon Science Award (1831).
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1829· 1 entry
Taught briefly in St Petersburg, but returned to Königsberg (Kaliningrad)
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1827· 2 entries
Completed research Ovi Mammalium et Hominis genesi for St Petersburg's Academy of Science (published at Leipzig)
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Von Baer became the first person to observe human ova
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1826· 1 entry
Baer discovered the mammalian ovum
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1817· 1 entry
Became a professor at Königsberg University and full professor of zoology in 1821, and of anatomy in 1826
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1814· 1 entry
Studied at Imperial University of Dorpat (1814).
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1812· 1 entry
During his tenure at the university, he was sent to Riga to aid the city after Napoleon's armies had laid siege to it
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1792· 1 entry
Born 1792-02-17.
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