BAER, KARL ERNST, RITTER VON , EDLER VON HUTHORN

Additional reading Autobiography of Dr. Karl Ernst von Baer, ed. by Jane Oppenheimer (1986; originally published in German, 2nd ed., 1886), contains an extensive bibliography. Two biographies in German are Ludwig Stieda, Karl Ernst von Baer, 2nd ed. (1886); and B.E. Raikov, Karl Ernst von Baer, 17921876, trans. from Russian (1968), both with extensive bibliographies. Jane Oppenheimer, Baer, Karl Ernst von, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 1 (1970), pp. 385389, analyzes his scientific contributions. Timothy Lenoir, The Strategy of Life (1982), analyzes Baer's thought and its impact on German biology.