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Ernst Ludwig Krause also known under the pen-name Carus Sterne (22 November 1839 in
Zielenzig, – 24 August 1903 in
Eberswalde
Eberswalde () is a major town and the administrative seat of the district Barnim in the German State ( Bundesland / ''federated state'') of Brandenburg, about 50 km northeast of Berlin. Population 42,144 (census in June 2005), geographic ...
) was a German biologist.
Initially a student of
pharmacy
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, he later studied
natural sciences
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at the
University of Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...
. After graduation, he devoted himself to independent scientific research. He was a prominent and successful champion of
Darwinism
Darwinism is a scientific theory, theory of Biology, biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of smal ...
in Germany. He also maintained an extensive correspondence with Germany's most outspoken popular Darwinist,
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new sp ...
.
Selected works
* ''Die Naturgeschichte der Gespenster. Physikalisch-physiologisch-psychologische Studien'',
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
1863 – The natural history of ghosts. Physico-physiological-psychological studies.
* ''Werden und Vergehen eine Entwicklungsgeschichte des Naturganzen in gemeinverständlicher Fassung'' (11 editions published between 1876 and 1907) – Growth and decay, a history of the whole of nature in a common sense approach.
* "Erasmus Darwin", (30 editions published between 1879 and 2009 in English and German). Published in German as "''Erasmus Darwin und seine Stellung in der Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie''" (biography of
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Robert Darwin (12 December 173118 April 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor, and poet.
His poems ...
, translated from the German by W.S. Dallas; with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin).
* ''Charles Darwin und sein Verhältnis zu Deutschland'' (10 editions published between 1885 and 1887) –
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...
and his relationship in Germany.
* ''Die allgemeine Weltanschauung in ihrer historischen Entwickelung'',
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
1889 – The general world belief in historical development.
* ''Natur und Kunst : Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Kunst'', 1891 – Nature and art: Studies on the developmental history of art.
* ''Geschichte der biologischen Wissenschaften im 19. Jahrhundert'', Berlin 1901 – History of biological sciences in the 19th Century.
Krause was also the author of numerous articles in the journal ''
Die Gartenlaube
''Die Gartenlaube – Illustriertes Familienblatt'' (; ) was the first successful mass-circulation German newspaper and a forerunner of all modern magazines.Sylvia Palatschek: ''Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries'' (Oxford: ...
''.
de.Wikisource
bibliography of Krause
Notes
External links
*
at www.eiszeitstrasse.de (in German)
1839 births
1903 deaths
Charles Darwin biographers
19th-century German biologists
People from Sulęcin
People from the Province of Brandenburg
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