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Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp Auguste (1834-1919)

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Place: Germany Subject : biography, biology German zoologist well known for his genealogical trees of living organisms and for his early support of Darwin's ideas on evolution. Haeckel was born in Potsdam, Prussia (now in Germany), on 16 February 1834. His father was a lawyer in Merseburg, where Ernst Haeckel was educated. He studied medicine (although his main interest was botany) at the University of Würzburg and obtained his degree from the University of Berlin in 1857. There he was taught by Johannes Müller (1801-1858), who interested him greatly in zoology; he also studied under Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902). Haeckel travelled through Italy and then, after practising medicine for a year, became a lecturer at the University of Jena in 1861. The following year he was appointed extraordinary professor of comparative anatomy at the Zoological Institute in Jena. He founded the Phyletic Museum in Jena and the Ernst Haeckel Haus, which contains his archives as well as many personal…
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German biologist, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Jena; established the phylum Chordata (in 1874), incorporating the subphyla Urochordata, Cephalochordata, and Vertebrata. His students included Wilhelm Roux and Hans Driesch. In his comparative studies, Karl Ernst von Baer observed…
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German anatomist, physician and Professor at Jena after 1865. Known for his biogenetic law that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, Haeckel was a strong supporter of Darwin's ideas and promoted them in the German literature, even strategizing in correspondence with Darwin as to how best to promote…
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From Encyclopedia of Evolution
(b. 1834–d. 1919) zoologist, evolutionary biologist Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel is best known as the principal champion for Darwinian evolution in late 19th-century continental Europe, and for evolutionary concepts that turned out to be wrong in their original form. Born February 16, 1834, …
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Full text Article Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp Auguste (1834-1919)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place: Germany Subject : biography, biology German zoologist well known for his genealogical trees of living organisms and for his early support of Darwin's ideas on evolution. Haeckel was born in Potsdam, Prussia (now in Germany), on 16 February 1834. His father was a lawyer in Merseburg, where…
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