August Weismann
1915; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 41; Issue: 1069 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1126/science.41.1069.917
ISSN1095-9203
Autores Tópico(s)European Political History Analysis
Resumothis society, was born a t Frankfort on the Main, January 17, 1834, and died at Freiburg in Breisgau, November 6, 1914.He early showed the traits of a naturalist and in one of his boolcs speaks of the excitement he felt as a boy in catching butterflies.I-Ie attended the University of Gottingen, where he studied chemistry and medicine, coming especially under the instruction of the distinguished anatomist Henle, and receiving the degree of N.D. in 1856.A f t e spending three years at Rostock as an assistant he began the practise of medicine at Prank-Iort and during this time he visited Vienna in 1858, Italy in 1859 and Paris in 1860.Prom 1861 to 1862 he was private physician to Archduke Stephan of Austria at Schamburg Palace.He then studied zoology at Giessen under the renowned zoologwt I~euckart and became privat-docent in zoology at the University of Freiburg in 1863, where he spent the remainder of his life.In 1866 he was appointed professor extraordinarius and a few gears later became professor ordinarius, ~vhich position he continued to hold until a few years before his death, when he was made professor emeritus.I n person he was a man of striliing appearance, being about six feet tall and wc?ll proportioned ancl having a fine head and face and an earnest but kind expression of the eyes.
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