2003
DOI: 10.1007/s12064-003-0051-x
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The importance of the “Gegenbaur school” for German morphology

Abstract: The school Carl Gegenbaur cultivated at Heidelberg (1873±1901) was critical to the history of German morphology in multiple ways. During and after his lifetime, the school carried out detailed comparative anatomical and embryological investigations in an evolutionary framework, thereby contributing substantially to the project of vertebrate evolutionary morphology. Its members also defended their mentor when his ideas came under attack. After his death, they labored to perpetuate his program and his memory in … Show more

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“…Through his training of students, Gegenbaur founded a school of thought that dominated German morphology for the remainder of the century (Nyhart, 1995(Nyhart, , 2003Bowler, 1996;Gliboff, 2008). In 1872, when Ludwig Edinger began his studies of medicine at the University of Heidelberg, he studied for a year with Gegenbaur (Glees, 1952;Edinger, 2005, p. 50).…”
Section: Evolutionary Morphologymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Through his training of students, Gegenbaur founded a school of thought that dominated German morphology for the remainder of the century (Nyhart, 1995(Nyhart, , 2003Bowler, 1996;Gliboff, 2008). In 1872, when Ludwig Edinger began his studies of medicine at the University of Heidelberg, he studied for a year with Gegenbaur (Glees, 1952;Edinger, 2005, p. 50).…”
Section: Evolutionary Morphologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More than a decade prior to his encounter with Edinger, Gegenbaur was mentor to his most well-known student, Ernst Haeckel, who was considered the most vigorous exponent of Darwin's theory outside England in the nineteenth century (Nyhart, 1995(Nyhart, , 2003Bowler, 1996;Gliboff, 2008 (Edinger, 2005, p. 49), a widely read popular account of evolutionary theory published in 1868 (Haeckel, 1892;Richards, 2008), when he was a teenager.…”
Section: Evolutionary Morphologymentioning
confidence: 99%