[On the position of the travel reports Ocean und Mittelmeer (1848) in the work of the zoologist, geologist, educator and politician Carl Vogt (1817-1895)].
The German-Swiss natural scientist, politician and emigrant Carl Vogt was a pioneer of science education of the public in the nineteenth century. Among his most important popular writings are his travel reports, Ocean und Mittelmeer (1848), in which he dealt with his research into marine biology in France and Italy (1844-1846) as well as with art, culture and science in these two countries. His travel reports illustrate the considerable interest in biological education in the contemporary literary public and the growing educational value of the natural sciences, which became a firm element of Wilhelmine culture. Vogt studied the "physiology of the lower animals" and searched--similar to the functionalist view of organisms in Georges Cuvier and his sponsor Henri Milne-Edwards--for a causal link between the morphological structure and the physiological functions, the "vital mechanics" ("Lebensmechanik"), of animals. Vogt's travel reports were influential for the contemporary popular "seaside studies".
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