Matthias Jacob Schleiden

Bio

* 1804, Hamburg, Germany

† 1881, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Career

1824-1827 legal studies at the University of Heidelberg, doctoral degree in 1826; following legal practice in Hamburg; after period of great depression occupational change; since 1832 studies in the natural sciences, especially botany at the University of Göttingen; in 1835 move to Berlin University, studies under his botanist uncle Johann Horkel, who encouraged him to pursue plant embryological studies; in Berlin work at Johannes Müller's laboratory together with Theodor Schwann; Beiträge zur Phytogenesis (1838); doctoral degree at the University of Jena in 1839; 1840 associate professor of botany at the Jena faculty of medicine; 1842 publication of the Principles of scientific botany, or, Botany as an inductive science (2. rev. ed. 1845); 1843 foundation of a physiological laboratory (since 1845 Physiological Institute); 1850 professor of medicine and natural history; 1850 directorate of the university's Botanical garden in Jena; universal teaching activities in anthropology, microscopy, pharmacology, plant anatomy and physiology, as well as popular scientific activities; in 1863 retirement from university teaching in Jena; 1863-1864 professor for anthropology at University of Dorpat (Tartu, Estonia); after 1864 private scholar in Dresden, Darmstadt, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main; 1844 co-founder (with Carl Nägeli) of the Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Botanik. Together with Schwann founder of cell-theory.

Degrees

Dr. jur. (1826), Dr. phil. (1839)

VL Library

Einige Blicke auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte des vegetabilischen Organismus bei den Phanerogamen, in: Wiegmann's A. Naturgesch. 3(1837): 289-320; Beiträge zur Phytogenesis, in: A. Anat. Physiol. u. wiss. Med. 5(1838): 137-177; Grundzüge der wissenschaftlichen Botanik ..., 2 Tle., Leipzig 1842-1843 (2. Aufl. u.d.T.: Die Botanik als inductive Wissenschaft behandelt, 2 Tle., Leipzig 1845-1846; ≥1849-1850); Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Sassaparille, Hanover 1847; Die Pflanze und ihr Leben : Populäre Vorträge, Leipzig 1848 (61864); Handbuch der medicinisch-pharmaceutischen Botanik und botanischen Pharmacognosie, 2 Bde., Leipzig 1852; Das Alter des Menschengeschlechtes, die Entstehung der Arten und die Stellung des Menschen in der Natur, Leipzig 1863; Ueber den Darwinismus und die damit zusammenhängenden Lehren, in: Unsere Zeit, Dt. Rev. d. Gegenwart, Monatsschr. zum Conversations-Lex., N.F., 5/1(1869): 50-71, 258-277, 606-630.

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