Article ID: CBB000671395

“... die Biologie als die Krone oder der höchste Strebepunkt aller Wissenschaften”: Zur Rezeption des Biologiebegriffs in der romantischen Naturforschung (Lorenz Oken, Ernst Bartels, Carl Gustav Carus) (2006)

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During the first decade after the publication of the first volume of Treviranus' fundamental work Biologie oder Philosophie der lebenden Natur (6 vols, 1802--1822), three German naturalists and physicians -- Oken, Bartels, and Carus, all inspired by the natural philosophy of Schelling --, used the term biology in the titles of some of their books.An analysis of these works shows, that their objective was somewhat different from what Treviranus himself had intended. In contrast to Treviranus' idea of a doctrine of life, which should be separated as a discipline from the physical sciences, they generated the conception that also the universe is a living thing.This preoccupation of the term biology by the Naturphilosophen was just a short interplay in what may be called the period of romantic biology.Yet it is not improbable that this romantic notion of biology may have been an major obstacle to the formation of the academic discipline biology.

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Authors & Contributors
Montiel, Luis
Gambarotto, Andrea
Stumpp, Gabriele
Stubbe, Hannes
Stiefel, Katrin
Schulz, Reinhard
Journals
Psychologie und Geschichte
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Psychologische Rundschau
Philosophia Naturalis
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Publishers
York University (Canada)
Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft
Soznat
Königshausen & Neumann
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
de Gruyter
Concepts
Science
Natural philosophy
Biology
Romanticism
Psychology
Natural history
People
Oken, Lorenz
Carus, Carl Gustav
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
Treviranus, Gottfired Reinhold
Azara, Félix de
Steffens, Henrich
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Germany
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