Ernst Haeckel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, and artist
Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1834
Place of Birth: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Date of Death: 09-Aug-1919
Profession: naturalist, physician, zoologist, artist, biologist, ornithologist, university teacher, botanist, ichthyologist, philosopher, explorer, ecologist
Nationality: German Empire
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Ernst Haeckel
- Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (German: ['????nst 'h?kl?]; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista.
- Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny. The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures, collected in his Kunstformen der Natur ("Art Forms of Nature").
- As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträthsel (1895–1899; in English: The Riddle of the Universe, 1901), the genesis for the term "world riddle" (Welträtsel); and Freedom in Science and Teaching to support teaching evolution.
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