Born as Lorenz Okenfuss on his father's farm near Bohlsbach bei Offenburg, Germany, Lorenz Oken shortened his rustic-sounding surname to prevent ridicule. Oken studied medicine at the University of Freiburg, but transferred to the University of...

Oken, Lorenz(1779–1855) Lorenz Oken, a German biologist and philosopher, was born at Bohlsbach, Baden. He was graduated from the faculty of medicine at Freiburg in 1804 and obtained his first professorship in medicine at Jena in 1807. Oken left...

1779-1851 German Natural Scientist Lorenz Oken, a proponent of natural science and philosophy, asserted that there are fundamental units of life, which he called "infusoria." His general ideas about the elemental structures of living...

He was born in Bohlsbach in Swabia and studied natural history and medicine at the University of Würzburg. He went on to the University of Göttingen, where he became a Privatdozent (unsalaried lecturer), and shortened his name to Oken. As Lorenz Oken,...

In Moby-Dick Herman Melville intuited and illumined "the heart of [the] almighty forlornness" that has so often made its presence felt in our age. (1) By any modern measure, Melville's dark vision a century and a half ago was a clairvoyant lock on...

STEVEN HOWARD OKEN went to his death this week in Maryland -- the first execution in the state in six years, the first as well since Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) lifted his processor's moratorium on executions. Mr. Oken was as good...