Karl ernst von baer biography of albert

A short biography of Karl Ernst von Baer

(compiled by E.Tammiksaar)

Baer, Karl Ernst von (Karl Maksimovich), (17/28.02.1792 on the Estate of Piep (Piibe) Jerwen County (Järvamaa) - 16/28.11.1876, Dorpat (Tartu)) - a versatile Baltic-German naturalist.

Born into the family of close relatives Magnus von Baer, the owner of the Estate of Piep and the Knight Commander of the Order of the Knights of Estonia, and his cousin Juliane von Baer. The first six years of his life B. spent on the Estate of Lassila (Lasila), which belonged to his uncle Karl Heinrich von Baer.

1807-10 he studied at the Cathedral School in Reval (Tallinn).

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1810-14 B. was a student of medicine at the University of Dorpat, being especially attracted by the lectures of K. Burdach and G. F. Parrot. He graduated from the University as doctor of medicine. The thesis On the diseases endemic among the Estonians (De morbis inter esthonos endemicis.

Dorpati, 1814. In Estonian 1976, the Library of "Looming