Caspar friedrich wolff biography of martin

(b. Berlin, Germany, 18 January 1734; d.

Caspar friedrich wolff biography of martin

St. Petersburg, Russia [now Leningrad, U.S.S.R.], 22 February 1794)

biology.

Wolff was the son of Johann Wolff, a tailor who moved to Berlin in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, and Anna Sofia Stiebeler.

He studied medicine at the Medical-Surgical College in Berlin (1753– 1754) and in 1755 enrolled at the University of Halle; his dissertation, Theoria generations (1759), was criticized by Haller and Bonnet. On behalf of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Euler attempted unsuccessfully in 1760– 1761 to obtain for Wolff a post at the St.

Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In 1761 Wolff became a field doctor in the Prussian army, which was then at war with Russia; and he also lectured in anatomy at the Breslau Military Hospital. His attempts in 1762 and 1764 to obtain permission to lecture in Berlin were opposed by the professors of the Medical-Surgical College, who had guild privileges to teach me