Lorenz Oken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lorenz Oken

naturalist (1779-1851)

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1779

Place of Birth: Offenburg, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 11-Aug-1851

Profession: naturalist, biologist, ornithologist, university teacher, entomologist, philosopher

Nationality: Switzerland, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Lorenz Oken

  • Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss (German: OkenfuĂź) in Bohlsbach (now part of Offenburg), Ortenau, Baden, and studied natural history and medicine at the universities of Freiburg and WĂĽrzburg.
  • He went on to the University of Göttingen, where he became a Privatdozent (unsalaried lecturer), and shortened his name to Oken.
  • As Lorenz Oken, he published a small work entitled Grundriss der Naturphilosophie, der Theorie der Sinne, mit der darauf gegrĂĽndeten Classification der Thiere (1802).
  • This was the first of a series of works which established him as a leader of the movement of "Naturphilosophie" in Germany. In it he extended to physical science the philosophical principles which Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) had applied to epistemology and morality.
  • Oken had been preceded in this by Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), who, acknowledging that Kant had discovered the materials for a universal science, declared that all that was needed was a systematic coordination of these materials.
  • Fichte undertook this task in his "Doctrine of Science" (Wissenschaftslehre), whose aim was to construct all knowledge by a priori means.
  • This attempt, which was merely sketched out by Fichte, was further elaborated by the philosopher Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854).
  • Oken built on Schelling's work, producing a synthesis of what he held Schelling to have achieved.Oken produced the seven-volume series Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fĂĽr alle Stände, with engravings by Johann Susemihl (1767–1847), and published in Stuttgart by Hoffman between 1839 and 1841.

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