Baer, Karl Ernst von

Stéphane Schmitt, REHSEIS (UMR 7596), CNRS, Paris, France

Published online: July 2008

DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002417

KE von Baer was one of the most important embryologists of the nineteenth century. In particular, he discovered the mammal egg (1821) and established that the embryonic development was gradual and not the simple growth of a preformed individual (1828).

Keywords: history of embryology; mammal egg; epigenesis; germ layers

 Further Reading
    book Baer KE von (1827) De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi epistola. Leipzig: Voss.
    book Baer KE von (1828–1837) Über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere. Beobachtung und Reflexion. Königsberg: Bornträger. 2 vols.
    book Baer KE von (1866) Nachrichten über Leben und Schriften. St. Petersburg: Schmitzdorff.
    book Baer KE von (1986) In: Oppenheimer J (ed.) and Schneider H (transl.), Autobiography of Dr. Karl Ernst von Baer. Canton, MA: Science History Publications.
    book Oppenheimer J (1967) Essays in the History of Embryology and Biology. Cambridge: MIT Press.
    book Oppenheimer J (1970) "Baer, Karl Ernst von". In: Gillispie CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 1, pp. 385–389. New York: Scribners' Sons.
    book Raikov BE (1968) Karl Ernst von Baer, 1792–1876. Sein Leben und sein Werk. Leipzig: J. Barth.

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Schmitt, Stéphane(Jul 2008) Baer, Karl Ernst von. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002417]