and on August 24, he presented his dissertation on "The 

 Endemic Diseases of Estonians," after which he went abroad 

 for advanced courses in practical medicine. 



On travelling through Berlin in 1814 he met Pander, 

 with whom he had studied at Dorpat University, and Pander 

 warmly urged him to stay in Berlin to study natural science 

 "In Berlin," Baer wrote in his autobiography,! 



I met Pander, the future embryologist and 

 paleontologist. He had been there already 

 for one or two semesters and strongly urged 

 me to stay in Berlin. He talked with admira- 

 tion about the zoological museum, about the 

 botanical garden and about the lectures -he 

 had heard. All that was very tempting, but 

 I wanted to be a true practical physician and 

 was afraid that these fascinations would be 

 distracting. Hence I became hard and decided 

 not even to look at these sirens. (pp. 205 - 

 206 (163) (150)) 



Instead, Baer decided to carry out his intended plan 

 and departed to Vienna, where he was admitted to clinical 

 studies. But soon he felt dissatisfaction with this work 

 and learned that his true interests were the biological 

 sciences. He then left Vienna to seek a German university 

 where he could study comparative anatomy, in which he was 



NACHRICHTEN UBER LEBEN UND SCHRIFTEN. See 

 footnote on p. 136. This was first given in the 

 Russian language in 1950 (Academician Baer, K. M. , 

 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, edited by Academician E.N. Pavlovskii, 

 Translation and commentary by Prof. B. E. Raikov, Edition 

 of AS USSR, 544 pp.). After that the chapters of the 

 present book devoted to Baer were written. On 

 referring to AUTOBIOGRAPHY, citations are given to the 

 pages in the Russian translation and the German original (in 

 rounded brackets) . (Ed. : Corrected page references to 

 NACHRICHTEN (JBER LEBEN UND SCHRIFTEN, 1864; 

 Hannover-Dohren: Verlag Hannov. Hirschheydt, 1972, 

 reprint of 1886 printing.) 



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