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Jens Rathke
Jens Rathke (14 November 1769 – 28 February 1855) was a Norwegian professor, scientist and zoologist. Biography Rathke was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Casper Elias Rathke (1729-1777) and Margaretha Madsdatter Schultz (1735-1812). He was a student at the Christiania Cathedral School until 1787. Rathke took Cand.theol. Candidatus theologiæ (male), Candidata theologiæ (female), abbreviated cand. theol. is an academic degree with a long tradition, awarded after a six-year higher education in theology in Iceland, Denmark, and Norway. In Norway, the title has re ... at the University of Copenhagen in 1792, but soon left theology and began to study natural sciences. In 1810, he became a professor at Copenhagen, where he also undertook lessons in botany and mineralogy beside zoology. In 1813, he moved to the University of Christiania (now University of Oslo) as a professor of natural history. He made several trips to along the Norwegian coast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Rathke
Jens Rathke (14 November 1769 – 28 February 1855) was a Norwegian professor, scientist and zoologist. Biography Rathke was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Casper Elias Rathke (1729-1777) and Margaretha Madsdatter Schultz (1735-1812). He was a student at the Christiania Cathedral School until 1787. Rathke took Cand.theol. Candidatus theologiæ (male), Candidata theologiæ (female), abbreviated cand. theol. is an academic degree with a long tradition, awarded after a six-year higher education in theology in Iceland, Denmark, and Norway. In Norway, the title has re ... at the University of Copenhagen in 1792, but soon left theology and began to study natural sciences. In 1810, he became a professor at Copenhagen, where he also undertook lessons in botany and mineralogy beside zoology. In 1813, he moved to the University of Christiania (now University of Oslo) as a professor of natural history. He made several trips to along the Norwegian coast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1769 Births
Events January–March * February 2 – Pope Clement XIII dies, the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits.Denis De Lucca, ''Jesuits and Fortifications: The Contribution of the Jesuits to Military Architecture in the Baroque Age'' (BRILL, 2012) pp315-316 * February 17 – The British House of Commons votes to not allow MP John Wilkes to take his seat after he wins a by-election. * March 4 – Mozart departs Italy, after the last of his three tours there. * March 16 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo, following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships '' La Boudeuse'' and '' Étoile'', with the loss of only seven out of 330 men; among the members of the expedition is Jeanne Baré, the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe. She returns to France some time after Bougainville and his ships. April–June * April 13 – James Cook arrives in Tahiti, on the ship HM Bark ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Norwegian Zoologists
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 (Roman numerals, MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (Roman numerals, MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The Industrial Revolution, First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Gunpowder empires, Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
