Oscar Hertwig
Academic
1849 – 1922
Who was Oscar Hertwig?
Oscar Hertwig was a German zoologist and professor, who also wrote about the theory of evolution circa 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. He was the elder brother of zoologist-professor Richard Hertwig.The Hertwig brothers were the most eminent scholars of Ernst Haeckel from the University of Jena. They were independent of Haeckel's philosophical speculations but took his ideas in a positive way to widen their concepts in zoology. Initially, between 1879–1883, they performed embryological studies, especially on the theory of the coelom, the fluid-filled body cavity. These problems were based on the phylogenetic theorems of Haeckel, i.e. the biogenic theory, and the "gastraea theory".
Within 10 years, the two brothers moved apart to the north and south of Germany. Oscar Hertwig later became a professor of anatomy in 1888 in Berlin; however, Richard Hertwig had moved 3 years prior, becoming a professor of zoology in Munich from 1885–1925, at Ludwig Maximilians Universität, where he served the last 40 years of his 50-year career as a professor at 4 universities.
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- Born
- Apr 21, 1849
Friedberg - Siblings
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
- Died
- Oct 25, 1922
Berlin
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on July 23, 2013
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