Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

ST GEORGE JACKSON MIVART (1827-1900)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

ST See also:

GEORGE See also:JACKSON See also:MIVART (1827-1900)  , See also:English biologist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 3oth of See also:November 1827, and educated at Clapham See also:grammar-school, See also:Harrow, and See also:King's See also:College, London, and afterwards at St See also:Mary's, Oscott, since his See also:conversion to See also:Roman Catholicism prevented him from going to See also:Oxford . In 1851 he was called to the See also:bar, but he devoted him-self to medical and biological studies . In 1862 he was appointed lecturer at St Mary's See also:Hospital medical school, in 1869 he became a See also:fellow of the Zoological Society, and from 1874 to 1877 he was See also:professor of See also:biology at the See also:short-lived Roman See also:Catholic University College, London . In 1873 he published Lessons in Elementary See also:Anatomy, and an See also:essay on See also:Man and Apes . In 1881 appeared The See also:Cat: an Introduction to the Study of Back-boned Animals . The careful and detailed See also:work he bestowed on Insectivora and See also:Carnivora largely increased our knowledge of the anatomy of these See also:groups . In 1871 his See also:Genesis of See also:Species brought him into the controversy then raging . Though admitting See also:evolution generally, See also:Mivart denied its applicability to the human See also:intellect . His views as to the relationship existing between human nature and intellect and See also:animal nature in See also:general were given in Nature and Thought (1882); and in the Origin of Human See also:Reason (1889) he stated what he considered the fundamental difference between men and animals . In 1884, at the invitation of the Belgian episcopate, he became professor of the See also:philosophy of natural See also:history at the university of See also:Louvain, which had conferred on him the degree of M.D. in 1884 . Some articles published in the Nineteenth See also:Century in 1892 and 1893, in which Mivart advocated the claims of See also:science even where they seemed to conflict with See also:religion, were placed on the See also:Index expurgatorius, and other articles in See also:January 1900 led to his See also:excommunication by See also:Cardinal See also:Vaughan, with whom he had a curious See also:correspondence vindicating his claim to hold liberal opinions whileremaining in the Roman Catholic See also:Church . Shortly afterwards he died, in London, on the 1st of See also:April 1900 .

End of Article: ST GEORGE JACKSON MIVART (1827-1900)
[back]
MITTWEIDA
[next]
MIZPAH, or MIZPEH

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.