The New Student's Reference Work/Baer, Karl Ernst von

Baer, Karl Ernst von (fōn bâr) (1792–1876), a distinguished Russian naturalist, the founder of modern embryology. He was educated in Germany and became a professor in the University at Königsberg, where, in 1828, he published The Development of Animals (Entwickelungsgeschichte der Tiere), a set of careful observations and philosophical reflections that are most remarkable for clearness and thoroughness. This book made an epoch in the science of the development of animal life.