Schleiden, Matthias Jacob

Ohad S Parnes, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002474

1804–1881 German botanist who elucidated the role of the nucleus in plant cell development.

Keywords: plant cell; botany; microscopy

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Further Reading
	book Schleiden MJ (1838) "Beiträge zur Phytogenesis". Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin 137–176.
	book Schleiden MJ (1842) Grundzüge der wissenschaftliche Botanik. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
	book Schleiden MJ (1969) Principles of Scientific Botany or Botany as an Inductive Science. New York: Johnson Reprint. [English translation.]
	book Schleiden MJ (1989) Wissenschaftsphilosophische Schriften. Hrsg. von Ulrich Charpa. Cologne: Dinter.
	book Buchdahl G (1973) "Leading principles and induction: the methodology of Matthias Schleiden". In: Giere RN and Westfall RS (eds) Foundations of Scientific Method: The Nineteenth Century, pp. 23–52. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
	book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1981) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
	book Mylott A (1997) "Cells, life and reductionism in the botany of Mathias Jacob Schleiden". In: Dodel R, Seidel E and Steindler S (eds) Ideengeschichte und Wissenschaftsphilosophie. Festschrift für Lutz Geldsetzer, pp. 183–196. Cologne: Jürgen Dinter-Verlag für Philosophie.