Matthias Jakob Schleiden

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Matthias Jakob Schleiden (Hamburg, April 5, 1804 - Frankfurt am Main, June 23, 1881) was a German botanist who, together with his compatriot physiologist Theodor Schwann, formulated the theory cell.

Biography

He was born in Hamburg on April 5, 1804. After studying law in Heidelberg he abandoned the practice of law to study botany, which he later taught at the University of Jena, from 1839 to 1862.[ citation required]

A man of controversial character, he mocked the botanists of his time, who limited themselves to naming and describing plants, Schleiden studied them under a microscope and conceived the idea that they were composed of recognizable units or cells.

The growth of plants, as he stated in 1838, is produced by the generation of new cells that, according to his speculations, would propagate from the cell nuclei of the old ones. Although later discoveries showed his error regarding the role of the nucleus in mitosis or cell division, his concept of the cell as a structural unit common to all plants had the effect of drawing the attention of scientists to the vital processes that occurred at cellular level, a change that brought about the birth of embryology.

Die Entwickelung der Meduse ("The Development of the Medusa"), in the work of Schleiden Das Meer.

A year after Schleiden published his cell theory of plants, his compatriot and friend Theodor Schwann extended it to animals, thus unifying botany and zoology under a common theory.

Some posts

  • Beiträge zur Phytogenesis. In: Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin. 1838, pp. 137-176
  • Grundzüge der wissenschaftlichen Botanik nebst einer methodologischen Einleitung als Anleitung zum Studium der Pflanze. 2 tomos. Leipzig 1842 u. 1843, spätere Auflagen unter dem Titel Die Botanik als inductive Wissenschaft bearbeitetNachdruck: Olms, Hildesheim/Zürich/New York 1998, ISBN 3-487-10530-6
  • Die Pflanze und ihr Leben. Engelmann, Leipzig 1848
  • Das Alter des Menschengeschlechts, die Entstehung der Arten und die Stellung des Menschen in der Natur. Engelmann, Leipzig 1863
  • Das Meer. Verlag und Druck A. Sacco Nachf. Berlin 1867, Nachdruck: Severus, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86347-291-7
  • Die Rose. Geschichte und Symbolik in ethnographischer und kulturhistorischer Beziehung. Verlag und Druck Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1873; Nachdruck: Sändig, Wiesbaden 1973, ISBN 3-500-26940-0
  • Die Bedeutung der Juden für Erhaltung und Wiederbelebung der Wissenschaften im Mittelalter. Commissionsverlag von Baumgaertner's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1877; Nachdruck: Nabu Press 2010, ISBN 978-149-67731-5
  • Die Romantik des Martyriums bei den Juden im Mittelalter. Verlag und Druck W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1878; Nachdruck: Kessinger Pub Co 2010, ISBN 978-1-162-51552-6

Eponymy

Gender
  • (Boraginaceae) Schleidenia Endl.
Species
  • (Lemnaceae) Wolffia schleidenii Miq.
  • (Mimosaceae) Mimosa schleidenii Herter

Used bibliography

  • Olaf Breidbach, Uwe Hoßfeld, Ilse Jahn, Andrea Schmidt (eds.) Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1804–1881). Schriften und Vorlesungen zur Anthropologie. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08542-4
  • Ulrich Charpa. Methodologie der Verzeitlichung. Schleiden, Whewell und das entwicklungsgeschichtliche Projekt. In: Philosophia Naturalis 25: 75–109. 1988
  • Ulrich Charpa. Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804–1881): The History of Jewish Interest in Science and the Methodology of Microscopic Botany. In: Aleph. Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 3: 213–245, 2003
  • Ulrich Charpa. Matthias Jakob Schleiden. In: Thomas Bach, Olaf Breidbach (eds.) Naturphilosophie nach Schelling. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart, 2005, pp. 627–653
  • Ulrich Charpa. Darwin, Schleiden, Whewell and the "London Doctors". Evolutionism and Microscopical Research in the Nineteenth Century. In: J. for General Philosophy of Science 41: 61–84. 2010
  • Ilse Jahn, Isolde Schmidt. Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1804–1881): Sein Leben in Selbstzeugnissen (chuckles) Acta Historica Leopoldina. vol. 44). Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2005, ISBN 3-8047-2258-X
  • Martin Möbius. Matthias Jacob Schleiden zu seinem 100. Geburtstage. Mit einem Bildnis Schleidens und zwei Abb. im Text. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1904
  • A.P.: Matthias Jacob Schleiden. In: Der Israelit 34 (20, August 1931): 11

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