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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (German: [ɛʁnst ˈhɛkl̩]; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist.
Ernst Haeckel (born Feb. 16, 1834, Potsdam, Prussia [Germany]—died Aug. 9, 1919, Jena, Ger.) was a German zoologist and evolutionist who was a strong proponent of Darwinism and who proposed new notions of the evolutionary descent of human beings.
- Gloria Robinson
Aug 3, 2019 · Learn about the life and work of Ernst Haeckel, a German biologist who illustrated his microscopic findings with colorful and stylized drawings. His book Kunstformen der Natur became a visual encyclopedia of living things and influenced art, design, and architecture.
Feb 24, 2019 · The German biologist and artist Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834–1919) (Fig. 1) was a key figure during the early years of the “First Darwinian revolution”, a time period when the foundation for the development of our modern evolutionary view of the biosphere was laid.
- Ulrich Kutschera, Georgy S Levit, Uwe Hossfeld
- 2019
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 - 1919) was a philosopher, professor, physician, naturalist, biologist and artist. Early Life: Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was born on 16th February 1834 in Potsdam, Germany.
Ernst Haeckel, (born Feb. 16, 1834, Potsdam, Prussia—died Aug. 9, 1919, Jena, Ger.), German zoologist and evolutionist. After receiving a degree in medicine in 1857, he obtained a doctorate in zoology from the University of Jena, and from 1862 to 1909 he taught zoology at Jena.
The evolutionary study of embryos reached a peak in the late 1800s thanks primarily to the efforts of one extraordinarily gifted, though not entirely honest, scientist named Ernst Haeckel (left). Haeckel was a champion of Darwin, but he also embraced the pre-Darwinian notion that life formed a series of successively higher forms, with embryos ...
