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BAER, Karl Ernst Ritter von (1792 – 1876)

BAER, Karl Ernst Ritter von (1792 – 1876)

1792 – 1876

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1826 –1840

#599

Die Physiologie als Erfahrungswissenschaft. Edited by Karl Friedrich Burdach. 6 vols.

Burdach’s great textbook of physiology was planned to run to 10 vols., but the death of his wife quenched his enthusiasm for the task. Parts of the text were written by von Baer, Rathke, Johannes Müller, R. Wagner and…

1827

#477

De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi.

Announces Baer’s discovery of the mammalian ovum, the culmination of a search begun by scientists at least as early as the work of de Graaf in the 17th century (No. 1209). The pamphlet was reprinted in facsimile in Is…

1828 –1888

#479

Ueber Entwicklungsgeschichte der Thiere. 2 vols.

Baer, the founder of modern embryology, definitely established the “germ-layer theory”, discovered the notochord and the human ovum, and postulated the law of corresponding stages in embryonic development. With Cuvier…