Question

Who used the word 'Biology' first time?
1. Aristotle
2. Jan Evangelista Purkyně
3. Treviranus and Lamarck
4. Hugo von Mohl

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Treviranus and Lamarck

The Correct Answer is Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus and ​Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

• The term biology introduced independently by Thomas Beddoes, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
  • Treviranus was born in Bremen and studied medicine at the University of Gottingen, where he took his doctor's degree in 1796.
  • He was appointed professor of medicine and mathematics at the Bremen lyceum.
  • In 1816, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 

• Aristotle
  • He was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition. 
• Jan Evangelista Purkyně
  • He was a Czech anatomist and physiologist.
  • In 1839, he coined the term 'protoplasm' for the fluid substance of a cell.
• Hugo von Mohl 
  • He was a German botanist from Stuttgart.
  • He was the first person to use the word 'protoplasm'.