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Oken, Lorenz

German naturalist
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Lorenz Okenfuss
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August 1, 1779, Bohlsbach, Swabia [Germany]
Died:
August 11, 1851, Zürich, Switzerland (aged 72)
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Oken, Lorenz (born August 1, 1779, Bohlsbach, Swabia [Germany]—died August 11, 1851, Zürich, Switzerland) was a German naturalist, the most important of the early 19th-century German “nature philosophers,” who speculated about the significance of life, which they believed to be derived from a vital force that could not be understood totally through scientific means. He elaborated Wolfgang von Goethe’s theory that the vertebrate skull formed gradually from the fusion of vertebrae. Although the theory was later disproved, it helped prepare a receptive atmosphere for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

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