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Driesch
Driesch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Angela von den Driesch (1934–2012), German archaeologist and veterinarian * Hans Driesch (1867–1941), German biologist and philosopher * Johannes Driesch (1901–1930), German painter, graphic artist, ceramicist, and book cover designer {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (28 October 1867 – 17 April 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. He has also been credited with performing the first artificial 'cloning' of an animal in the 1880s, although this claim is dependent on how one defines cloning. Early years Driesch was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He began to study medicine in 1886 under August Weismann at the University of Freiburg. In 1887 he attended the University of Jena under Ernst Haeckel, Oscar Hertwig and Christian Ernst Stahl. In 1888 he studied physics and chemistry at the University of Munich. He received his doctorate in 1889. He travelled widely on field and study trips and lecture-tours, visiting Plymouth, India, Zurich and Leipzig where, in 1894, he published his ''Analytische Theorie der organischen Entwicklung'' or ''Analytic Theory of Organic Dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Von Den Driesch
Angela von den Driesch (11 July 1934 – 4 January 2012) was a German archaeologist and veterinarian. She was a professor and former director of the ''Institut für Paläoanatomie, Domestikationsforschung und Geschichte der Tiermedizin'' at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Education and career Angela Felicitas Karpf was born on 11 July 1934 in Dresden but her family moved to Tegernsee, Bavaria after the Second World War. She studied in Munich and Zürich, first reading Romance languages, then veterinary medicine. She was awarded the degree of Doctor Medicinae Veterinariae by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1963 for her thesis on the lymphatic system of the testicle. She married Karl von den Driesch in 1966. In 1965, Angela von den Driesch joined Munich's newly founded ''Institut für Paläoanatomie, Domestikationsforschung und Geschichte der Tiermedizin'' (Institute for Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine), directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |