See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

AUGUST See also:

• AUGUST WEISMANN (1834– )

WEISMANN (1834– )  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German biologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort-on-See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

Main, on the 17th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1834, and studied See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine in See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen . After spending three years in See also:

• ROSTOCK

Rostock, he visited successively See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna (1858), See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy (1859) and See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris (186o), and from 1861 to 1862 he acted as private physician to the See also:

• ARCHDUKE (Lat. archidux, Ger. Erzherzog)

archduke See also:

• STEPHEN
• STEPHEN (1097?-1154)
• STEPHEN (ISTVAN) BATHORY (1533-1586)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES (1789-1859)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES, BART
• STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE (1832-1904)

Stephen of See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria at Schaumburg See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

Palace . In 1863 he went to See also:

• GIESSEN

Giessen to devote himself to biological study under Leuckart, and in 1866 he was appointed extra-See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary See also:

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

professor of See also:

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

zoology at See also:

• FREIBURG

Freiburg, becoming ordinary professor a few years later . His earlier See also:

• WORK

work was largely concerned with purely zoological investigations, one of his earliest See also:

• WORKS

works dealing with the development of the See also:

• DIPTERA (Sir, double, arepa, wings)

Diptera . Microscopical work, however, became impossible to him owing to impaired eyesight, and he turned his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to wider problems of biological inquiry . Between 1868 and 1876 he published a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of papers in which he attacked the question of the variability of organisms; these were published in an See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation by R . Meldola in 1882, under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Studies in the Theories of Descent, See also:

• DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1809-1882)
• DARWIN, ERASMUS (1731-1802)

Darwin himself contributing a See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface in which the importance of the nature and cause of variability in individuals was emphasized . See also:

• WEISMANN, AUGUST (1834– )

Weismann's name, however, is best known as the author of the germ-plasm theory of See also:

• HEREDITY

heredity, with its accompanying denial of the transmission of acquired characters—a theory which on its publication met with consider-able opposition, especially in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, from orthodox Darwinism . A series of essays in which this theory is expressed was collected and published in an English translation (Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems, vol. i . 1889, vol. ii . 1892) . Weismann published many other works devoted to the exposition of his biological views, among them being See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Dauer See also:

• DES

des Lebens; Vererbung; Ewigkeit des Lebens; Die Kontinuitat des Keimplasmas als Grundlage See also:

• LINER, or LINE OF BATTLE

Liner Theorie der Vererbung; Das See also:

• KEIM, KARL THEODOR (1825—1878)

Keim-plasma; Die Allmacht der Naturzuchtung; Aussere Einflilsse als Entwicklungsreize; Neue Gedanken zur Vererbungsfrage, and Germinal-Selektion .

For an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his doctrines the reader is referred to the articles on HEREDITY, REGENERATION and See also:

• REPRODUCTION

REPRODUCTION .