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Ernst Haeckel

1834 - 1919

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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; German: [ɛʁnst ˈhɛkl̩]; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) 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 Darwin's work in Germany and developed the debunked but influential recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"), wrongly claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny, using incorrectly drawn images of human embryonic development. Whether they were intentionally falsified, or drawn poorly by accident is a matter of debate. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Haeckel is the 9th most popular biologist (down from 8th in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Germany (down from 99th in 2019) and the most popular German Biologist.

Ernst Haeckel is most famous for his work in comparative anatomy and evolutionary biology. He was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, and artist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ernst Haeckel ranks 9 out of 1,097. Before him are Gregor Mendel, Alexander Fleming, James Watson, Ivan Pavlov, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. After him are Konrad Lorenz, Rosalind Franklin, Karl Landsteiner, Robert Edwards, Robert Brown, and Georges Cuvier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Ernst Haeckel ranks 4. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Edgar Degas, and Gottlieb Daimler. After him are James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Venn, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, William Morris, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Léon Walras, and Carl Bloch. Among people deceased in 1919, Ernst Haeckel ranks 6. Before him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Rosa Luxemburg, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Emil Fischer, and Theodore Roosevelt. After him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfred Werner, Gojong of Korea, Karl Liebknecht, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, and Emiliano Zapata.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Haeckel ranks 115 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Paulus (1890), Rudolf I of Germany (1218), William Herschel (1738), Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893), Gottlieb Daimler (1834), and William the Silent (1533). After him are Nikolaus Otto (1832), Albert Speer (1905), Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), Claus von Stauffenberg (1907), and Philip Melanchthon (1497).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Ernst Haeckel ranks 1. After him are Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Albrecht Kossel (1853), Peter Simon Pallas (1741), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Theodor Schwann (1810), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Hans Spemann (1869), August Weismann (1834), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Ernst Mayr (1904), and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942).

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