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....

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...

(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...

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...