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...Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie Luise (1776-1810) is chiefly famed because of her personal appeal to Napoleon at his camp in Tilsit after the battle of Jena (1806). She begged him to have mercy upon Prussia, but was only partially successful in obtaining certain concessions which enabled the Prussian army eventually to build up its strength...
...Stepp of Jena commended U. S. Experimenters Hess and Steenbock for their experiments in stimulating the production of vitamins in vegetable oils by means of the ultraviolet rays (artificial sunshine) of mercury lamps. . . . Too much vitamin-potent food might injure patients...
Zeiss microscope makers of Jena showed a cinema reel of unicellular life-isolated bacterium pneumococcus (pneumonia), bacterium streptococcus (pus), saccharomyces (yeast). It is possible to infect and kill an animal with a single germ. Such a germ proliferates to form a colony...
...Isis, friend of Goethe. On the basis of Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) critical philosophy and with clues from Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) he created the systematic plans upon which modern scientific knowledge is ranged. Protean, he lectured, at Jena, on general natural history, zoology, comparative anatomy, human, animal and plant physiology...
Died. Rudolf Christoph Eucken, 80, "dean of German philosophers," professor at Jena University, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for literature; at Jena, Germany, of pneumonia...