Career
In 1953 Leiden University started a section Theoretical Biology within the department of Zoology under the direction of the mathematical biologist Hassaram Rijhumal van der Vaart. In 1957 this section was transformed into an Institute with Van der Vaart as its Professor. But in 1961 he moved to Raleigh, North Carolina.
In 1966, the institute attracted Evert Meelis as a statistical consultant and invited Marius Jeuken to direct the institute, after he had been teaching biology at the Gadjah Mada University of Yogyakarta (Indonesia).
In 1968, Jeuken was given a Professorship in Theoretical Biology. Foreign at least half of his time he was dedicated to do experimental research so his theoretical biology would not lose contact with reality.
One of his specific interests was how biology could benefit from the philosophy developed by the mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead at Harvard University. lieutenant inspired one of his students, Gerard Verschuuren, to further expand on this issue (on Hemostatic Regulation).
His institute has always had strong historical ties with the Professor
Doctor January van der Hoeven Foundation, which is still the publisher of Acta Biotheoretica, the oldest journal of theoretical biology in the world. Foreign years, Jeuken acted as its Editor-in-Chief, until he died in 1983. The biological and philosophical definitions of life, Acta biotheoretica, 24 (1975), 14-21.
Remarks on the Is-Ought problem.
In Science and absolute values. London, 1974, 1059-1062.
In Science and absolute values. London, 1974, 858-862.
A note on models and explanation in biology, Acta biotheoretica, 18 (1969), 284-290.
The study of animal behaviour, Medan ilmu pengetahuan, (1961), 247-259. Philosophy and theoretical science, Laporan kongres ilmu pengetahuan nasional pertama. Djakarta, 1958, 95-114.
Function in biology, Acta biotheoretica, (1958), 29-46.