Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
1733-1794
German Physiologist and Embryologist
Kaspar Friedrich Wolff, the author of Theory of Generation (1759), revived the theory of epigenesis during a period in which many ...
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Wolff was born in Berlin, Germany, on January 18, 1734, the son of a master tailor. He studied at the Collegium Medicochirugicum in Berlin and at the University of Halle, where he received his medical...
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Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
Kaspar Friedrich Wolff