Karl ludwig von bertalanffy biography for kids

Austrian biologist and systems theorist (1901–1972)

Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (19 September 1901 – 12 June 1972) was an Austrianbiologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST).

Karl ludwig von bertalanffy biography for kids

This is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics and other fields. Bertalanffy proposed that the classical laws of thermodynamics might be applied to closed systems, but not necessarily to "open systems" such as living things.

His mathematical model of an organism's growth over time, published in 1934,^[1] is still in use today.

Bertalanffy grew up in Austria and subsequently worked in Vienna, London, Canada, and the United States.

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Biography

Ludwig von Bertalanffy was born and grew up in the little village of Atzgersdorf (now Liesing) near Vienna. Ludwig's mother Caroline Agnes^[2] Vogel was seventeen when she married the thirty-four-year-old Gustav.

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