Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Karl Ernst von Baer

Index Karl Ernst von Baer

Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn (Карл Эрнст фон Бэр; –) was an Estonian scientist and explorer. [1]

89 relations: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Anatomy, Anthropology, Baer's pochard, Baer–Babinet law, Baltic nobility, Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Russischen Reiches und der angrenzenden Länder Asiens, Berlin, Biologist, Biology, Blastula, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Caspian Sea, Charles Darwin, Comparative anatomy, Comparative embryology, Coriolis force, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Ectoderm, Edgar Allen, Edler, Egg cell, Embryology, Endoderm, Erosion, Estonia, Estonian Naturalists' Society, Ethnography, European Russia, French invasion of Russia, Geographer, Geography, Geologist, Geology, Germ layer, Germany, Governorate of Estonia, Governorate of Livonia, Heinz Christian Pander, Ichthyology, Ignaz Döllinger, Jerwen County, Kaliningrad, Lasila, Lääne-Viru County, Mammal, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Mesoderm, Meteorology, Natural history, ..., Natural selection, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, North Cape (Norway), Northern Hemisphere, Notochord, Novaya Zemlya, On the Origin of Species, Orthogenesis, Oscar Hertwig, Phylogenetic tree, Physiology, Piibe, Riga, Ritter, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Empire, Russian Entomological Society, Russian Geographical Society, Saint Petersburg, Sápmi, Scandinavia, Southern Hemisphere, Tallinn, Tartu, Taymyr Gulf, Teleology, Time perception, Transmutation of species, University of Königsberg, University of Tartu, Vienna, Von Baer's laws (embryology), Würzburg, Westphalia, Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoology, 2 krooni. Expand index (39 more) »

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and American Academy of Arts and Sciences · See more »

Anatomy

Anatomy (Greek anatomē, “dissection”) is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Anatomy · See more »

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Anthropology · See more »

Baer's pochard

Baer's pochard (Aythya baeri) is a diving duck found in eastern Asia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Baer's pochard · See more »

Baer–Babinet law

The Baer–Babinet law (also known as the law of Baer) is a concept in geography which states that the process of formation of rivers is influenced by the rotation of the earth.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Baer–Babinet law · See more »

Baltic nobility

The Baltic or Baltic German nobility was the privileged social class in the territories of today's Estonia and Latvia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Baltic nobility · See more »

Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Russischen Reiches und der angrenzenden Länder Asiens

Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Russischen Reiches und der angränzenden Länder Asiens (Contributions to Knowledge of the Russian Empire and Neighboring Countries of Asia; est. 1839) was a scholarly periodical published by the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences in Russia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Russischen Reiches und der angrenzenden Länder Asiens · See more »

Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Berlin · See more »

Biologist

A biologist, is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of biology, the scientific study of life.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Biologist · See more »

Biology

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Biology · See more »

Blastula

The blastula (from Greek βλαστός (blastos), meaning "sprout") is a hollow sphere of cells, referred to as blastomeres, surrounding an inner fluid-filled cavity called the blastocoele formed during an early stage of embryonic development in animals.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Blastula · See more »

Caspar Friedrich Wolff

Caspar Friedrich Wolff (18 January 1733 – 22 February 1794) was a German physiologist and one of the founders of embryology.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Caspar Friedrich Wolff · See more »

Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Caspian Sea · See more »

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Charles Darwin · See more »

Comparative anatomy

Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Comparative anatomy · See more »

Comparative embryology

Comparative embryology is the branch of embryology that compares and contrasts embryos of different species.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Comparative embryology · See more »

Coriolis force

In physics, the Coriolis force is an inertial force that acts on objects that are in motion relative to a rotating reference frame.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Coriolis force · See more »

Dictionary of Scientific Biography

The Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a scholarly reference work that was published from 1970 through 1980.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Dictionary of Scientific Biography · See more »

Ectoderm

Ectoderm is one of the three primary germ layers in the very early embryo.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Ectoderm · See more »

Edgar Allen

Edgar Allen (May 2, 1892 – February 3, 1943) was an American anatomist and physiologist.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Edgar Allen · See more »

Edler

Edler was until 1919 the lowest rank of nobility in Austria-Hungary and Germany, just beneath a Ritter (hereditary knight), but above untitled nobles, who used only the nobiliary particle von before their surname.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Edler · See more »

Egg cell

The egg cell, or ovum (plural ova), is the female reproductive cell (gamete) in oogamous organisms.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Egg cell · See more »

Embryology

Embryology (from Greek ἔμβρυον, embryon, "the unborn, embryo"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of biology that studies the prenatal development of gametes (sex cells), fertilization, and development of embryos and fetuses.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Embryology · See more »

Endoderm

Endoderm is one of the three primary germ layers in the very early embryo.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Endoderm · See more »

Erosion

In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Erosion · See more »

Estonia

Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Estonia · See more »

Estonian Naturalists' Society

Estonian Naturalists' Society (Eesti Looduseuurijate Selts) is the oldest Estonia-based society of naturalists.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Estonian Naturalists' Society · See more »

Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Ethnography · See more »

European Russia

European Russia is the western part of Russia that is a part of Eastern Europe.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and European Russia · See more »

French invasion of Russia

The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Отечественная война 1812 года Otechestvennaya Voyna 1812 Goda) and in France as the Russian Campaign (Campagne de Russie), began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and French invasion of Russia · See more »

Geographer

A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Geographer · See more »

Geography

Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Geography · See more »

Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Geologist · See more »

Geology

Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Geology · See more »

Germ layer

A germ layer is a primary layer of cells that form during embryogenesis.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Germ layer · See more »

Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Germany · See more »

Governorate of Estonia

The Governorate of Est(h)onia (Eestimaa kubermang) or Duchy of Estonia, also known as the Government of Estonia, was a governorate of the Russian Empire in what is now northern Estonia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Governorate of Estonia · See more »

Governorate of Livonia

The Governorate of Livonia (Лифляндская губерния, Liflyandskaya guberniya; Gouvernement Livland, Livländisches Gouvernement; Vidzemes guberņa, after the Latvian inhabited Vidzeme region) was one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, now divided between the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Estonia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Governorate of Livonia · See more »

Heinz Christian Pander

Heinz Christian Pander, also Christian Heinrich Pander (24 July 1794 – 22 September 1865), was a Baltic German biologist and embryologist born in Riga.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Heinz Christian Pander · See more »

Ichthyology

Ichthyology (from Greek: ἰχθύς, ikhthys, "fish"; and λόγος, logos, "study"), also known as fish science, is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Ichthyology · See more »

Ignaz Döllinger

Ignaz Döllinger (27 May 1770 – 14 January 1841) was a German doctor, anatomist and physiologist and one of the first professors to understand and treat medicine as a natural science.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Ignaz Döllinger · See more »

Jerwen County

Jerwen County (Kreis Jerwen, Kreis Weissenstein, Järva kreis, Paide kreis, Йервенский уезд, Вейсенштейнский уезд) was one of the four counties of the Russian Empire located in the Governorate of Estonia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Jerwen County · See more »

Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad (p; former German name: Königsberg; Yiddish: קעניגסבערג, Kenigsberg; r; Old Prussian: Twangste, Kunnegsgarbs, Knigsberg; Polish: Królewiec) is a city in the administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Kaliningrad · See more »

Lasila

Lasila is a village in Rakvere Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Lasila · See more »

Lääne-Viru County

Lääne-Viru County (Lääne-Viru maakond), or Lääne-Virumaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Lääne-Viru County · See more »

Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Mammal · See more »

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin was established in March 1994.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science · See more »

Mesoderm

In all bilaterian animals, the mesoderm is one of the three primary germ layers in the very early embryo.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Mesoderm · See more »

Meteorology

Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences which includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics, with a major focus on weather forecasting.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Meteorology · See more »

Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Natural history · See more »

Natural selection

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Natural selection · See more »

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology is a peer-reviewed monthly review journal that was established in October 2000 and is published by Nature Publishing Group.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology · See more »

North Cape (Norway)

North Cape (Nordkapp; Davvenjárga) is a cape on the northern coast of the island of Magerøya in Northern Norway.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and North Cape (Norway) · See more »

Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Northern Hemisphere · See more »

Notochord

In anatomy, the notochord is a flexible rod made out of a material similar to cartilage.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Notochord · See more »

Novaya Zemlya

Novaya Zemlya (p, lit. the new land), also known as Nova Zembla (especially in Dutch), is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in northern Russia and the extreme northeast of Europe, the easternmost point of Europe lying at Cape Flissingsky on the Northern island.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Novaya Zemlya · See more »

On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and On the Origin of Species · See more »

Orthogenesis

Orthogenesis, also known as orthogenetic evolution, progressive evolution, evolutionary progress, or progressionism, is the biological hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve in a definite direction towards some goal (teleology) due to some internal mechanism or "driving force".

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Orthogenesis · See more »

Oscar Hertwig

Oscar Hertwig (21 April 1849 in Friedberg – 25 October 1922 in Berlin) was a German zoologist and professor, who also wrote about the theory of evolution circa 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Oscar Hertwig · See more »

Phylogenetic tree

A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities—their phylogeny—based upon similarities and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Phylogenetic tree · See more »

Physiology

Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Physiology · See more »

Piibe

Piibe is a village in Väike-Maarja Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Piibe · See more »

Riga

Riga (Rīga) is the capital and largest city of Latvia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Riga · See more »

Ritter

Ritter (German for "knight") is a designation used as a title of nobility in German-speaking areas.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Ritter · See more »

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences · See more »

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences · See more »

Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíiskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Russian Academy of Sciences · See more »

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Russian Empire · See more »

Russian Entomological Society

The Russian Entomological Society is a Russian scientific society devoted to entomology.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Russian Entomological Society · See more »

Russian Geographical Society

The Russian Geographical Society (Russian: Ру́сское географи́ческое о́бщество «РГО») (RGO) is a learned society based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Russian Geographical Society · See more »

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Saint Petersburg · See more »

Sápmi

Sápmi, in English commonly known as Lapland, is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sami people, traditionally known in English as Lapps.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Sápmi · See more »

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Scandinavia · See more »

Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Southern Hemisphere · See more »

Tallinn

Tallinn (or,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Estonia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Tallinn · See more »

Tartu

Tartu (South Estonian: Tarto) is the second largest city of Estonia, after Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Tartu · See more »

Taymyr Gulf

The Taymyr Gulf (Таймырская губа, or Taymyrskaya Guba) is a gulf in the Kara Sea that includes the estuary of the Lower Taymyr River.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Taymyr Gulf · See more »

Teleology

Teleology or finality is a reason or explanation for something in function of its end, purpose, or goal.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Teleology · See more »

Time perception

Time perception is a field of study within psychology, cognitive linguistics and neuroscience that refers to the subjective experience, or sense, of time, which is measured by someone's own perception of the duration of the indefinite and unfolding of events.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Time perception · See more »

Transmutation of species

Transmutation of species and transformism are 19th-century evolutionary ideas for the altering of one species into another that preceded Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Transmutation of species · See more »

University of Königsberg

The University of Königsberg (Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and University of Königsberg · See more »

University of Tartu

The University of Tartu (UT; Tartu Ülikool, Universitas Tartuensis) is a classical university in the city of Tartu, Estonia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and University of Tartu · See more »

Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Vienna · See more »

Von Baer's laws (embryology)

Von Baer's laws of embryology (or laws of development) are four rules discovered by Karl Ernst von Baer to explain the observed pattern of embryonic development in different species.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Von Baer's laws (embryology) · See more »

Würzburg

Würzburg (Main-Franconian: Wörtzburch) is a city in the region of Franconia, northern Bavaria, Germany.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Würzburg · See more »

Westphalia

Westphalia (Westfalen) is a region in northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Westphalia · See more »

Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a Russian museum devoted to zoology.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences · See more »

Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and Zoology · See more »

2 krooni

The 2 krooni banknote (2 EEK) is a denomination of the Estonian kroon, the former currency of Estonia.

New!!: Karl Ernst von Baer and 2 krooni · See more »

Redirects here:

Baer laws, Carl Ernst von Baer, Edler von Huthorn, K. Baer, K. E. von Baer, Karl Baer, Karl Ernst Baer, Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Karl Maksimovich Baer, Karl von Baer, Purposeful creation.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ernst_von_Baer

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »