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Wilhelm Ostwald
Wilhelm Ostwald.
After retiring from his position at the University of Leipzig in 1906, Wilhelm Ostwald became an active reformer in scientific education and organization. Among his various leadership roles, he served as president of the Deutscher Monistenbund, a scientistic organization founded by the zoologist Ernst Haeckel that Ostwald treated as a quasi-religion.1