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Schleiden, Matthias Jacob
Hamburg, Germany
05.04.1804
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
23.06.1881 |
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| Degrees: |
Dr. jur. (1826), Dr. phil. (1839) |
| 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. |
| Selected works: |
Schleiden, Matthias Jacob. 1837. Einige Blicke auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte des vegetabilischen Organismus bei den Phanerogamen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 3: 289-320
Schleiden, Matthias Jacob. 1838. Beiträge zur Phytogenesis. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin: 137-176
Schleiden, Matthias Jacob. 1842-43. Grundzüge der wissenschaftlichen Botanik, nebst einer methodologischen Einleitung als Anleitung zum Studium der Pflanze (Part 1-2). Leipzig [part of: Müller Library]
Schleiden, Matthias Jacob. 1844. Ueber die Wichtigkeit des Mikroskops in allen Zweigen der Naturwissenschaft. Archiv der Pharmacie, eine Zeitschrift des Apotheker-Vereins in Norddeutschland 87: 68-82, 291-310
Schleiden, Matthias Jacob. 1848. Die Pflanze und ihr Leben. Populäre Vorträge. Leipzig: Engelmann |
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Schmidt ; ADB |
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See: The emerging field of plant physiology: Heinrich Friedrich Link, Mathias Jacob Schleiden and the 'Jahresberichte für physiologische Botanik', article by Björn Brüsch
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