Achtes Buch (Kapitel IV) (Seite 1069-1082) de Johann Baptist von Spix & Carl Friedrich P. von Martius

Johann Baptist von Schweitzer: the queer Marx loved to hate.

Despite his conviction on a morals charge involving a boy, the early German Social Democrat Johann Baptist von Schweitzer went on to have a successful political career. His life furnishes the context to present remarks by his political opponents Marx and Engels, which reveal their deep-seated homophobia. It is pointed out that this has been glossed over by the translations of the recently publi...

Carl von Linné

translation, four of the most important as lengthy appendices. More than 1200 pages are occupied by 28 Excursuses which discuss the evolution of our knowledge of a particular organ or structure-the heart, the brain, the alimentary canal, and so on. The writings of precursors, contemporaries, and followers have been scrutinized for every possible relevant fact or idea. There are over 2000 printe...

Dr. med. Johann Friedrich von Herrenschwand. Ein Berner Arzt im 18. Jahrhundert

learn about a fascinating segment of English seventeenthand eighteenth-century learning. The section which particularly concerns the medical historian runs to 41 pages in which pieces of varying length describe the lives of eleven professors, including Matthew Gwinne, Paul de Laune (Gideon's brother), John Mapletoft and John Woodward. The occasional doctor can be found in other sections, e.g. W...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wunde am 28.August 1749 als Sohn einer wohlhabenden Patrizierfamilie geboren. Im Alter von 16 Jahren nahm Goethe ein Jurastudium in Leipzig auf, neben der Juristerei hörte er auch Vorlesungen über Poesie und lernte Radieren und Kupferstechen bei Adam Friedrich Oeser. Nach einer schweren Krise nahm er sein abgebrochenes Studium in Straßburg wieder auf. Neben dem Jurast...

مرض گلی کوژن la maladie glycogenique de von Gierke