Pratt Institute: Ernst Haeckel’s Travels through Nineteenth-Century Ceylon: Eurocentric Views of Race and Place
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Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He 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, ontogeny, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles D…
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Born 16 February 1834 · Died 9 August 1919 · Q48246
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2025· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: The art and science of Ernst Haeckel / directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen ; authors, Rainer Willmann, Julia Voss ; English translation, Elizabeth Clegg ; French ...
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2022· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Ernst Haeckel
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2021· 1 entry
Daily Maverick: Ernst Haeckel: The zoologist whose drawings inspired Art Nouveau
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2019· 1 entry
Science Daily: Ernst Haeckel: Pioneer of modern science
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2018· 2 entries
Inverse: Ernst Haeckel's Bizarre, Refuted "Theory of Recapitulation" Explored in New Book
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Wall Street Journal: ‘The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel’ Review: The Zoologist as Artist
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ernst Haeckel: the art of evolution – in pictures
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2013· 1 entry
Ernstia, a genus of calcareous sponges in the family Clathrinidae
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2011· 1 entry
The Scientist: Ernst Haeckel’s Pedigree of Man, 1874
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2008· 1 entry
Defends the case for Haeckel, shedding doubt against the fraud accusations based on the material used for comparison with what Haeckel could access at the time
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1998· 1 entry
Richardson and Keuck 2002) have found that some of the criticisms of Haeckel's embryo drawings were legitimate, but others were unfounded
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1981· 1 entry
A botanical journal called Ernstia was started being published in the city of Maracay, Venezuela
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1936· 1 entry
In which he praised Haeckel as a "pioneer in biological state thinking"
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1935· 1 entry
Listed books which popularized Darwin and evolution on an "expunged list"
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1934· 1 entry
With several essays acclaiming him as a pioneering thinker of Nazism
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1919· 1 entry
Died 1919-08-09.
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1918· 1 entry
To the Carl Zeiss foundation, which preserved his library
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1915· 1 entry
And he became substantially frailer, breaking his leg and arm
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1909· 2 entries
And in 1910 he withdrew from the Evangelical Church of Prussia
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As the first president of Clark University
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1908· 1 entry
Won Darwin–Wallace Medal (1908).
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1907· 2 entries
And the Linnean Society of London's prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1908
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Had a museum built in Jena to teach the public about evolution
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1906· 1 entry
Haeckel belonged to the founders of the Monist League (Deutscher Monistenbund), which took a stance against philosophical materialism promoting a "natural Weltanschauung"
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1895· 1 entry
Awarded Bressa Prize (1895).
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1894· 1 entry
Won Linnean Medal (1894).
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1891· 2 entries
Haeckel made the excuse that this "extremely rash foolishness" had occurred in undue haste but was "bona fide", and since repetition of incidental details was obvious on close inspection, it is unlikely to have been inte
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Consisting of a skullcap, thighbone, and a few teeth
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1890· 1 entry
Won Swammerdam Medal (1890).
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1884· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector of the University of Jena (1884–1885).
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1876· 2 entries
Ernst Haeckel's popularization of palingenesis made an impact on politicians from both end of the spectrum—from Friedrich Engels's 1876 essay (Gould, 1977, p. 136) and Marxism to palingenetic ultranationalism.
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Career landmark: rector of the University of Jena (1876–1876).
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1874· 2 entries
With its frontispiece a heroic portrait of Haeckel himself, replacing the previous controversial image of the heads of apes and humans
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Haeckel's simplified embryology textbook Anthropogenie made the subject into a battleground over Darwinism aligned with Bismarck's Kulturkampf ("culture struggle") against the Catholic Church
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1869· 1 entry
Traveled as a researcher to Norway, in 1871 to Croatia (where he lived on the island of Hvar in a monastery), and in 1873 to Egypt, Turkey, and Greece
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1868· 2 entries
And translated into English as The History of Creation in 1876
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Their daughters Elizabeth in 1871 and Emma in 1873
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1866· 1 entry
Presenting a revolutionary new synthesis of Darwin's ideas with the German tradition of Naturphilosophie going back to Goethe and with the progressive evolutionism of Lamarck in what he called Darwinismus
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1864· 2 entries
Won Cothenius Medal (1864).
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Was very cautious about the possibility of ever reconstructing the history of life, but did include a section reinterpreting von Baer's embryology and revolutionising the field of study, concluding that "Embryology rises
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1861· 1 entry
Earned a habilitation in comparative anatomy and became a professor of zoology at the University of Jena, where he remained for 47 years, from 1862 to 1909
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1857· 1 entry
Haeckel attained a doctorate in medicine, and afterwards he received the license to practice medicine
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1852· 1 entry
Haeckel completed studies at the Domgymnasium, the cathedral high-school of Merseburg
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1834· 2 entries
Born 1834-02-16.
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“s hypothesis of Africa. Haeckel later claimed that the missing link was to be found on the lost continent of Lemuria located in the Indian Ocean. He believed that Lemuria was the home of the first humans and that Asia was the home of many of the earliest primates; he thus supported that Asia was the cradle of hominid evolution. Haeckel also claimed that Lemuria connected Asia and Africa, which allowed the migration of humans to the rest of the world. In Haeckel”
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