Carl Gegenbaur (21 August 1826 – 14 June 1903)[1] was a German anatomist and professor who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offers important evidence supporting of the theory of evolution.[1] As a professor of anatomy at the University of Jena (1855–1873) and at the University of Heidelberg (1873–1903), Carl Gegenbaur was a strong supporter of Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution,[1] having taught and worked, beginning in 1858, with Ernst Haeckel, eight years his junior.
Gegenbaur's book Grundzüge der vergleichenden Anatomie[2] (1859; English translation Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Francis Jeffrey Bell, 1878) became the standard textbook, at the time, of evolutionary morphology, emphasizing that structural similarities among various animals provide clues to their evolutionary history.[1] Gegenbaur noted that the most reliable clue to evolutionary history is homology, the comparison of anatomical parts which have a common evolutionary origin.[1]
Gegenbaur had been a student of Albert von Kölliker, Rudolf Virchow, Heinrich Müller and Franz Leydig (1821–1908).[3]
^A shortened student edition (1874) was titled "Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie", "Biodiversity Heritage Library", biodivlib-Anatomy. It was the second edition (1877) of this work that formed the basis for Bell's translation.
CarlGegenbaur (21 August 1826 – 14 June 1903) was a German anatomist and professor who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offers important...
Kovalevsky (1865) led to the creation of the class Enteropneusta by CarlGegenbaur (1870). William Bateson (1885) originally included them in phylum Chordata...
considered the earliest known bird. Following earlier suggestions by CarlGegenbaur and Edward Drinker Cope, Huxley found that Archaeopteryx was closely...
De incessu animalium There is an old theory, proposed by anatomist CarlGegenbaur, which has been often disregarded in science textbooks, "that fins and...
Gabriel Stokes (1893) Edward Frankland (1894) Karl Weierstrass (1895) CarlGegenbaur (1896) Albert von Kölliker (1897) William Huggins (1898) John William...
which the limbs of tetrapod animals evolved. The idea was proposed by CarlGegenbaur in 1878, sometimes termed the gill septum hypothesis and it consisted...
and reptiles. Starting in 1868, and following earlier suggestions by CarlGegenbaur, and Edward Drinker Cope, Huxley made detailed comparisons of Archaeopteryx...
century, the department of zoology taught evolutionary theory, with CarlGegenbaur, Ernst Haeckel and others publishing detailed theories at the time of...
University of Dorpat. Emil Rosenberg attended college as a student of CarlGegenbaur at the University of Jena. From 1868–1875, he was the second prosector...
venation. Epicoxal hypothesis: This theory, first proposed in 1870 by CarlGegenbaur, suggested that a possible origin for insect wings might have been the...
– Andrew Jackson Davis, American spiritualist (d. 1910) August 21 – CarlGegenbaur, German anatomist, professor (d. 1903) September 8 – Sir James Corry...
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Hertwig brothers were the most eminent scholars of Ernst Haeckel (and CarlGegenbaur) from the University of Jena. They were independent of Haeckel's philosophical...
Haeckel after contact with suffering patients. Haeckel studied under CarlGegenbaur at the University of Jena for three years. In 1861 he earned a habilitation...
Krohn, Eduard Rüppell, Johannes Peter Müller, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Albert von Kölliker, CarlGegenbaur, Ernst Haeckel, Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein...
13 – Stanislao Cannizzaro (died 1910), Italian chemist. August 21 – CarlGegenbaur (died 1903), German anatomist. September 17 – Bernhard Riemann (died...
"Telegraphy without Wires", at the Toynbee Hall in London. Copley Medal: CarlGegenbaur Wollaston Medal for geology: Eduard Suess January 3 – Jay Laurence Lush...
zoologist Johan Erik Vesti Boas, who was also a student of zoologist CarlGegenbaur, and Hans Christian Gram, inventor of the Gram stain. During Charles...
Nathaniel Everett Green, English painter and astronomer (d. 1899) 1826 – CarlGegenbaur, German anatomist and academic (d. 1903) 1829 – Otto Goldschmidt, German...
Karl Weierstrass "For his investigations in pure mathematics" 1896 CarlGegenbaur "For his life-long researches in comparative anatomy in all branches...
postulation of an "ideal" form (the Bauplan). Later evolutionists, including CarlGegenbaur and Ernst Haeckel, used phenotypic variation first described by Goethe...
portrait painter Leopold Gegenbauer (1849–1903), Austrian mathematician CarlGegenbaur (1826–1903), German anatomist and professor Gegenbauer polynomials,...
Brandoni de Gasparini Gauthier – Jacques Gauthier (born 1948) Gegenbaur – CarlGegenbaur (1825–1903) Gené – Giuseppe Gené (1800–1847) É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire...
mathematician (b. 1837) Draga Mašin, Serbian queen consort (b. 1861) June 14 – CarlGegenbaur, German anatomist (b. 1826) June 15 – Joseph Abbott, Australian wool-broker...
J. Willard Gibbs (born 1839), American physical chemist. June 14 – CarlGegenbaur (born 1826), German anatomist. July 21 – Henri Alexis Brialmont (born...
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