Talk:Matthias Jakob Schleiden

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Matthias Jakob Schleiden is within the scope of WikiProject Plants, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to plants and botany. For more information, visit the project page.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on the quality scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.
	It is requested that a picture or pictures be included in this article to improve its quality.

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.

Biography Portal

Start

This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]

This article is supported by the Science and academia work group.

It is requested that a picture or pictures of this person be included in this article to improve its quality.

	This article is part of the History of Science WikiProject, an attempt to improve and organize the history of science content on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. You can also help with the History of Science Collaboration of the Month.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the importance scale.

[edit] Talk

Mathias Jacob Schleiden

Matthias Jakob Schleiden was born on April 5, 1704. Born in Hamburg and educated in law at Heidelberg, Schleiden left law practice to study botany, which he then taught at the University of Jena from 1739 to 1962. He didn’t like how all the botanists do is merely naming and describing plants. Schleiden investigated plants on a microscope and he made a discovery that plants were made up of recognizable units or cells. Plant growth or plant reproduction was that new cells came from the nuclei of other cells. Though later studies proved him wrong about the role of the nucleus in mitosis, or cell division, he had made a change. That change was the profound effect of shifting scientific attention to living processes. He formulated the cell theory with the help of Theodor Schwann. Schleiden is the author of the book, "Grundzüge der wissenschaftlichen Botanik" (Basic Scientific Botany). He was the person who noticed that water and not carbon dioxide is split during the process of photosynthesis. It was he, who prompted CARL ZEISS (Jena) to produce microscopes on a commercial basis. Schleiden also wrote “Contributions to Phytogenesis”, in which he stated that the different parts of the plant organism are composed of cells.