Moleschott, Jacob

J Schickore, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002410

1822–1893 Dutch physician and physiologist who developed a chemical theory of metabolism embedded in a framework of philosophical materialism.

Keywords: physiological chemistry; metabolism; nutrition; scientific materialism

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Further Reading
	book Moleschott J (1852) Der Kreislauf des Lebens. Mainz, Germany: Zabern.
	book Moleschott J (1894) Für meine Freunde. Giessen, Germany: Roth.
	Gregory F (1977) Scientific versus dialectical materialism: a clash of ideologies in nineteenth-century German radicalism. Isis 68(242): 206–223.
	book Kamminga H (1995) "Nutrition for the people, or the fate of Jacob Moleschott's contest for a humanist science". In: Kamminga H and Cunningham A (eds) The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840–1940, pp. 15–47. Amsterdam: Rodopi.