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Ludwig Plate
1862–1937
A German zoologist and influential defender of Darwinism, he wrote widely on evolution at a time when the field was still taking shape. His work also helped introduce the term "pleiotropy" into biology.
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Die Tier- und Pflanzenwelt des Süsswassers. Erster Band.
by F. A. (François Alphonse) Forel, August Gruber, Friedrich Ludwig, W. (Walter) Migula, Ludwig Plate, Julius Vosseler, Wilhelm Weltner
About the author
Born in Bremen in 1862, Ludwig Hermann Plate became a prominent German zoologist and a student of Ernst Haeckel. He is remembered for his writing on evolutionary theory and for championing a form of Darwinism during a period of lively scientific debate.
Plate later succeeded Haeckel in Jena, where he served as a professor of zoology and directed the Phyletic Museum. Alongside his broader work in zoology, he is also noted in the history of biology for coining the term "pleiotropy."
He died in Jena in 1937. Today, he is mainly remembered through his contributions to zoology, evolutionary thought, and the intellectual history of early genetics.