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GUSTAV JAGER (1832– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 124 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAGER (1832– )  , See also:German naturalist and hygienist, was See also:born at See also:Burg in See also:Wurttemberg on the 23rd of See also:June 1832 . After studying See also:medicine at See also:Tubingen he became a teacher of See also:zoology at See also:Vienna . In 1868 he was appointed See also:professor of zoology at the See also:academy of See also:Hohenheim, and subsequently he became teacher of zoology and See also:anthropology at See also:Stuttgart poly-technic and professor of See also:physiology at the veterinary school . In 1884 he abandoned teaching and started practice as a physician in Stuttgart . He wrote various See also: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 in explanation of See also:heredity, resembling the germ-plasm theory subsequently elaborated by See also:August See also:Weismann, to the effect that the germinal See also:protoplasm retains its specific properties from See also:generation to generation, dividing in each re-See also:production into an ontogenetic portion, out of which the individual is built up, and a phylogenetic portion, which is reserved to See also:form the reproductive material of the mature off-See also:spring . In Die Normalkleidung als Gesundheitsschutz (188o) he advocated the See also:system of clothing associated with his name, objecting especially to the use of any See also:kind of See also:vegetable fibre for clothes .

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