1. Edmund Duncan Montgomery was a Scottish-American philosopher, scientist and physician.
15 Facts About Edmund Montgomery
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Edmund Montgomery was the husband of German-American sculptor Elisabet Ney.
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Edmund Montgomery's parentage is unknown, but the Elisabet Ney Museum relates the possibility that he was the son of Isabella Davidson and a prominent Scottish jurist, Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay.
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In 1852, Edmund Montgomery studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he did lab work under Robert Bunsen and came under the influence of Christian Kapp, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach and Jacob Moleschott.
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Edmund Montgomery received his MD degree from the University of Wurzburg on February 18,1858.
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Edmund Montgomery served his residency at the German Hospital, Dalston and Bermondsay Dispensary.
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Edmund Montgomery was elected to the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1862.
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Edmund Montgomery saw life as the ability of certain chemical compounds to resist damage.
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Edmund Montgomery commented on conceptions of knowledge and self in over sixty journal articles and five books.
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Edmund Montgomery was an advocate of humanitarianism and a "religion of life," focusing on the idea that man must not ignore the potential of his own yet-to-be-completed evolutionary process.
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Edmund Montgomery authored The Vitality and Organization of Protoplasm and Philosophical Problems in the Light of Vital Organization.
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Edmund Montgomery has been described as a pioneer of organicism.
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Edmund Montgomery became a naturalized United States citizen, and thereafter became active in local politics and events.
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Edmund Montgomery served two terms as Waller County Road Commissioner and oversaw the building of an iron bridge across the Brazos River.
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Edmund Montgomery died on April 17,1911, after suffering a number of strokes and is buried next to Ney at Liendo.