Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus
{{Short description|German physician, naturalist, and proto-evolutionary biologist}}
{{For|the German politician in the Weimar Republic|Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (politician)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus
| image = Gottfried_Reinhold_Treviranus.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1776|2|4|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bremen, Germany
| death_date = {{death date and age|1837|2|16|1776|2|4|df=y}}
| death_place = Bremen, Germany
| fields = Biology, Mathematics, Medicine
| workplaces = German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
| alma_mater = University of Göttingen
| academic_advisors = Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
| known_for = Biology, Transmutation of species
}}
Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (4 February 1776, Bremen – 16 February 1837, Bremen) was a German physician, naturalist, and proto-evolutionary biologist.
His younger brother, Ludolph Christian Treviranus (1779–1864), was also a naturalist and botanist, and also a notable taxonomist and zoologist.
History
Treviranus was born in Bremen and studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, where he took his doctor's degree in 1796.
During the following year, he was appointed professor of medicine and mathematics at the Bremen lyceum.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uv7p4o6xMUEC&pg=RA1-PA61 |title=London Medical and Surgical Journal |date=1837 |language=en}} In 1816, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
=Works=
Treviranus was a proponent of the theory of the transmutation of species, a theory of evolution held by some biologists prior to the work of Charles Darwin. He put forward this belief in the first volume of his Biologie; oder die Philosophie der lebenden Natur, published in 1802, the same year similar opinions were expressed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tg2ETJbHRY8C&pg=PA16 Google Books] From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences: Writing the History of Nineteenth edited by David Cahan
In the 1830s, he was the first to identify rod photoreceptor cells in the retina using a microscope.[https://books.google.com/books?id=_GMeW9E1IB4C&dq=%22Gottfried+Reinhold+Treviranus%22+retina+rods&pg=PA79 Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations Into Brain Function] by Stanley Finger
== Selected writings ==
- Biologie; oder die Philosophie der lebenden Natur für Naturforscher und Aerzte, (1802–22).
- Beiträge zur Lehre von den Gesichtswerkzeugen und dem Sehen des Menschen und der Thiere, (1828).
- Beiträge zur Aufklärung der Erscheinungen und Gesetze des organischen Lebens (with Ludolph Christian Treviranus), (1835–38).[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ATreviranus%2C+Gottfried+Reinhold%2C&qt=hot_author WorldCat Search] (publications)
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External links
- {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Treviranus, Gottfried Reinhold |short=x}}
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Category:Proto-evolutionary biologists
Category:Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Category:Physicians from Bremen (city)
Category:19th-century German biologists
Category:19th-century German botanists
Category:19th-century German physicians