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Lorenz Oken
Lorenz Oken was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. He became a professor of natural history at the University of Jena and from 1833 at the newly founded University of Zurich. He founded the journal Isis.
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science · German naturalist (1779–1851) · entomologist · ornithologist · naturalist · university teacher · philosopher · physician · botanist · court counsel · physiologist · collector · also Lorenz Oken, Oken, Lorenz Ockenfuss
Born 1 August 1779 · Died 11 August 1851 · Q55069834
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1851· 1 entry
Died 1851-08-11.
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1833· 3 entries
Career landmark: rector (1833–1835).
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Career landmark: President of the University of Zurich (1833–1834).
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To the professorship of natural history in the then recently established University of Zurich
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1832· 2 entries
Oken was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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On the proposal by the Bavarian government to transfer him to a professorship in a provincial university of the state, he resigned his appointments and left the kingdom
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1828· 1 entry
Oken resumed his original humble duties as privatdocent in the newly established Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and soon afterwards he was appointed ordinary professor in the same university
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1821· 1 entry
Oken promulgated in Isis the first idea of the annual general meetings of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians, which was realized in the following year, when the first meeting was held at Leipzig
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1820· 2 entries
Narrates having become inspired with the original idea are suspiciously analogous to those described by Oken in 1807, as producing the same effect on his mind
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In his Morphologie, he first publicly stated that thirty years before the date of that publication he had discovered the secret relationship between the vertebrae and the bones of the head, and that he had always continu
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1816· 1 entry
Oken began publication of his well-known periodical, Isis, eine encyclopädische Zeitschrift, vorzüglich für Naturgeschichte, vergleichende Anatomie und Physiologie
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1812· 1 entry
Was appointed ordinary professor of the natural sciences
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1810· 1 entry
Summed up his views on organic and inorganic nature into one compendious system
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1809· 1 entry
Oken extended his system to the mineral world, arranging the ores, not according to the metals, but according to their combinations with oxygen, acids and sulphur
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1807· 1 entry
Oken was invited to fill the office of Extraordinary Professor of the Medical Sciences at the University of Jena
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1806· 3 entries
In the Harz forest, he stumbled on the blanched skull of a deer, picked up the partially dislocated bones, and contemplated them for a while, when it suddenly occurred to him, "It is a vertebral column
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Knew nothing of this unpublished idea or discovery of Goethe, and that Goethe first became aware that Oken had the idea of the vertebral relations of the skull when he listened to the introductory discourse in which the
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Written with the assistance of Dietrich von Kieser (1779–1862), entitled Beiträge zur vergleichenden Zoologie, Anatomie, und Physiologie, he demonstrated that the intestines originate from the umbilical vesicle, and that
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1805· 1 entry
Oken made a further advance in the application of the a priori principle in a book on generation (Die Zeugung), in which he maintained that "all organic beings originate from and consist of vesicles or cells
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1779· 1 entry
Born 1779-08-01.
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