Karl Ernst von Baer
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Science, Social Science
- Subcategories: Biology, Biologists, Scientists, Earth Sciences, Anthropology, Anthropologists, Geology, Geologists
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, German History, Eastern European History
Article abstract: Baer gained his greatest fame early in his career through his discovery of the mammalian egg and his contributions to the understanding of embryological development. In his later years, Baer would turn his attention to anthropological investigations, including the state of primitiveness of various races, and to geological studies, especially in Russia.
Early Life
In the mid-sixteenth century, an ancestor of Karl Ernst von Baer emigrated from Prussia to Livonia, and one of that ancestor’s descendants bought an estate in Estonia during...
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