Note 89 — BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Karl Ernst von Baer was born in 1792 in Esthonia, studied at Dorpat and then at Würzburg, where Döllinger introduced him to comparative anatomy. For a few years he was a Privat-docent at Berlin; then he went to Königsberg as Professor of Zoology and Embryology. In 1834 he became an Academician at St. Petersburg, where for many years he was occupied with the most varied studies, chiefly geographical and ethnological. The last years of his long, active life he spent in contemplative retirement on his paternal estate, and he died at Dorpat in 1876.