Hugo de Vries
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Hugo de Vries 🇳🇱

Hugo Marie de Vries
["Botanist", "Geneticist", "Formulator of Mutation Theory"]
Born Feb 16, 1848 🇳🇱 Haarlem, Netherlands
Passed Away May 21, 1935 Lunteren (Gelderland), Netherlands
Lifespan 87 years old
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"The origin of species is not a slow, imperceptible drift; nature leaps from one stable form to another through mutations."

Archival Overview

Dutch botanist who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900 and formulated the revolutionary Mutation Theory, introducing the concept of sudden genetic changes as the raw material of evolution.

Biographical Record

Hugo de Vries (1848–1935) served as professor of botany at the University of Amsterdam. In 1889, in his theoretical work 'Intracellular Pangenesis', he postulated that biological traits are determined by physical particles he named 'pangenes' (shortened by Wilhelm Johannsen to 'genes').

Cultivating evening primroses (Oenothera lamarckiana) in his Hilversum garden, de Vries observed spontaneous, radical new varieties appearing in single generations. In 1901, he published 'The Mutation Theory', providing the missing mechanism of discontinuous variation that Darwin's theory of natural selection required.

Key Life Milestones

1900

Rediscovery of Mendel's Laws of Heredity

Published experimental evidence confirming Gregor Mendel's particulate inheritance laws in plant hybrids.

1901

Publication of 'The Mutation Theory'

Introduced the scientific concept of genetic mutation as the primary driver of evolutionary novelty.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Lunteren Municipal Cemetery
Lunteren (Ede, Gelderland), Netherlands
GPS: 52.0833, 5.6167
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