Editing Karl Ernst von Baer (section)

==Life==
[[File:Lasila mõisa peahoone 2012.jpg|thumb|[[Lasila|Lasila manor]], Estonia, where von Baer spent his early childhood]]
Karl Ernst von Baer was born into the [[Baltic nobility|Baltic German noble]] [[Baer (noble family)|Baer family]] <small>([[:et:Baer (Eestimaa aadlisuguvõsa)|et]])</small> in the [[Piibe Manor|Piep Manor]] <small>([[:et:Piibe mõis|et]])</small>, [[Jerwen County]], [[Governorate of Estonia]] (in present-day [[Lääne-Viru County]], [[Estonia]]), as a [[Ritter|knight]] by birthright. His patrilineal ancestors were of [[Westphalia]]n origin and originated in [[Osnabrück]]. He spent his early childhood at [[Lasila|Lasila manor]], Estonia.<ref name=reproduction>{{cite journal |title=An historical look at embryo transfer |author=K. J. Betteridge |journal=Reproduction |quote=Three years later, the Estonian, Karl Ernst von Baer, finally found the true mammalian egg in a pet dog (von Baer, 1827). |year=1981 |volume=62 |issue=1 |pages=1–13 |doi=10.1530/jrf.0.0620001 |pmid=7014855 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=est>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xI6wma5TNTUC&q=estl%C3%A4nder&pg=PA47 |title=Zwischen den Sternen: Lichtbildarchive. Was Einstein und Uexküll, Benjamin und das Kino der Astronomie des 19. Jahrhunderts verdanken |chapter=Karl Ernst von Baer |page=47 |year=2006 |author=Karl Clausberg |location=Berlin |publisher=Akademie Verlag |isbn=978-3-05-004043-1 |language=de |quote=...- dreizehn Jahre später von dem berühmten Estländer Biologen Karl Ernst von Baer... }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=repro>{{cite journal |url=http://hektoeninternational.org/HektoenInternational.NeuralDarwinism2.html |title=Evolution from recapitulation theory to Neural Darwinism |author=J.M.S. Pearce, M.D. |journal=Hektoen International. A Journal of Medical Humanities |volume=2 |issue=2 |year=2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329104606/http://hektoeninternational.org/HektoenInternational.NeuralDarwinism2.html |archive-date=29 March 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | author=Hein, Ants| title=Eesti Mõisad – Herrenhäuser in Estland – Estonian Manor Houses | publisher=Tänapäev | year=2009| location=Tallinn | page=126 | language =et, de, en | isbn=978-9985-62-765-5}}</ref> <!--Many of his ancestors had come from [[Westphalia]].--> He was educated at the Knight and Cathedral School in [[Reval]] (Tallinn) and the [[Imperial University of Dorpat]] ([[Tartu]])<!-- source? : "each of which he found lacking in quality of education"-->. In 1812, during his tenure at the university, he was sent to [[Riga]] to aid the city after [[French invasion of Russia|Napoleon's armies]] had laid siege to it. As he attempted to help the sick and wounded, he realized that his education at Dorpat had been inadequate, and upon his graduation, he notified his father that he would need to go abroad to "finish" his education.  In his autobiography, his discontent with his education at Dorpat inspired him to write a lengthy appraisal of education in general, a summary that dominated the content of the book.  After leaving Tartu, he continued his education in [[Berlin]], [[Vienna]], and [[Würzburg]], where [[Ignaz Döllinger]] introduced him to the new field of [[embryology]].

In 1817, he became a professor at [[Königsberg University]] and full professor of [[zoology]] in 1821, and of [[anatomy]] in 1826. In 1829, he taught briefly in [[St Petersburg]], but returned to [[Königsberg]] (Kaliningrad). In 1834, Baer moved back to St Petersburg and joined the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]], first in zoology (1834–46) and then in [[comparative anatomy]] and [[physiology]] (1846–62). His interests while there were anatomy, [[ichthyology]], [[ethnography]], [[anthropology]], and [[geography]]. While embryology had kept his attention in Königsberg, then in Russia von Baer engaged in a great deal of field research, including the exploration of the island [[Novaya Zemlya]]. The last years of his life (1867–76) were spent in Dorpat, where he became a major critic of [[Charles Darwin]].<ref name="Vucinich1988">{{cite book|author=Alexander Vucinich|title=Darwin in Russian thought|url=http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5290063h&chunk.id=d0e2212|access-date=1 September 2011|year=1988|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06283-2|pages=92–99|archive-date=27 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927061519/http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5290063h&chunk.id=d0e2212|url-status=live}}</ref>