This is, in a sense, a prequel describing how the German botanist Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804-1881), troubled by periods of melancholy and several challenging personality qualities, came to ...

Hooke, Schleiden, Schwann, and the many others who painted the early portraits of cells would be astounded if they could see the state of cell biology today. Researchers now order cells from catalogs, ...

June 23, 1881. Matthias Jakob Schleiden died.—At first an advocate at Hamburg, Schleiden afterwards held the chairs of botany at Jena and Dorpat. He did much to establish the cell theory ...

Improvements were also made in tissue-preservation and -treating techniques. According to Schleiden, however, the first phase of the generation of cells was the formation of a nucleus of ...