The German biologist and natural philosopher Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919) was famous for his work in evolutionary theory, especially the construction of phylogenetic trees. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries he was as famous...

Ernst Haeckel was a naturalist who spent much of his career examining the relationship between evolutionary development (phylogeny) and the development of the embryo (ontogeny). Although the pursuit of this relationship often led Haeckel to advance...

Ernst Haeckel was born in Potsdam, Germany, the son of a Prussian government official. After graduating from the cathedral gymnasium in Merseberg in 1852, he entered the University of Berlin as medical student. Haeckel took occasional semesters at the...

1834-1919 German Embryologist Ernst Haeckel was among the first German biologists to adopt Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He popularized evolutionary thought on the European continent and...

Ernst Haeckel was born in Potsdam, Germany. As a young boy he was interested in nature, particularly botany, and kept a private herbarium, where he noticed that plants varied more than the conventional teachings of his day advocated. Despite these...

Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich(1834 which gives an account of the controversies in which Haeckel engaged after the publication of The Riddle of the Universe. Merz, J. T. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1903....

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 — August 9, 1919),[1] also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist. Ernst Haeckel named thousands of new species (see...

VISIONS OF NATURE--THE ART AND SCIENCE OF ERNST HAECKEL By Olaf Breidbach. Munich: Prestel. 2006. [pounds sterling]55 Ernst Haeckel is a natural historian caught between the world of art and design on the one hand and biology on the other. A...

VISIONS OF NATURE: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF ERNST HAECKEL Famous Chiefly for hiS "recapitulation theory," in which ontogeny (development of form) is said to be linked to phylogeny (evolutionary descent), zoologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was also an artist of the...

In the following excerpt, Slosson presents a wide-ranging biographical sketch of Haeckel, by turns laudatory and critical, which views his work and thought in the context of his personal life.

In the following excerpt, Gillis critiques Haeckel's Monism and his presentation of it, treating the former as a variety of religious dogma and the latter as an often dishonest attempt to make facts conform to theory.

In the following excerpt, Thomas and Thomas offer an account of Haeckel's professional and personal life .