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JAGER, GUSTAV (1832– )

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JAGER, GUSTAV (1832– )

JAGER, GUSTAV (1832– ) , See also:

German naturalist and hygienist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

BURG

Burg in See also:

WURTTEMBERG

Wurttemberg on the 23rd of See also:

JUNE

June 1832. After studying See also:

MEDICINE

medicine at See also:

TUBINGEN

Tubingen he became a teacher of See also:

ZOOLOGY (from Gr. Nov, a living thing, and ?byos, theory)

zoology at See also:

Vienna. In 1868 he was appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of zoology at the See also:

academy of See also:

HOHENHEIM

Hohenheim, and subsequently he became teacher of zoology and See also:

ANTHROPOLOGY (Gr. avOpw1ror man, and Xoyos, theory or science)

anthropology at See also:

STUTTGART

Stuttgart poly-technic and professor of See also:

PHYSIOLOGY (from Gr. 4 i s, nature, and koyos, discourse)

physiology at the veterinary school. In 1884 he abandoned teaching and started practice as a physician in Stuttgart. He wrote various See also:

WORKS

works on biological subjects, including See also:

Die Darwinsche Theorie and ihre Stellung zu Moral and See also:

Religion (1868), Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Zoologie (1871–1878), and Die Enideckung der Seele (1878). In 1876 he suggested an See also:

HYPOTHESIS (from Gr. inrorcOivat, to put under; cf. Lat. suppositio, from sub-ponere)

hypothesis in explanation of See also:

HEREDITY

heredity, resembling the germ-plasm theory subsequently elaborated by See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August See also:

WEISMANN, AUGUST (1834– )

Weismann, to the effect that the germinal See also:

PROTOPLASM

protoplasm retains its specific properties from See also:

GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation to generation, dividing in each re-See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production into an ontogenetic portion, out of which the individual is built up, and a phylogenetic portion, which is reserved to See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form the reproductive material of the mature off-See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring. In Die Normalkleidung als Gesundheitsschutz (188o) he advocated the See also:

SYSTEM

system of clothing associated with his name, objecting especially to the use of any See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

VEGETABLE

vegetable fibre for clothes.

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