Ernst Haeckel

Details

Instance of

human

Born

16 February 1834, 1834

Died

9 August 1919, 1919

Place of birth

Potsdam

Place of death

Jena

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Ernst, Heinrich, Philipp, August

Family name

Haeckel

Father

Carl Haeckel

Spouse

Anna Sethe, Agnes Huschke

Child

Walter Haeckel, Elisabeth Haeckel

Field of work

common descent

Occupation

biologist, physician, zoologist, philosopher, naturalist, ecologist, ornithologist, university teacher, ichthyologist, botanist, explorer, photographer

Position held

rector of the University of Jena, rector of the University of Jena

Citizenship

German Empire, Weimar Republic, Kingdom of Prussia

Awards

Darwin Medal, Cothenius Medal, Darwin–Wallace Medal, Linnean Medal, Bressa Prize, Swammerdam Medal

academic degree

doctorate

archives at

Berlin State Library

author citation (zoology)

Haeckel

birth name

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

collection items at

Universalmuseum Joanneum, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Herbarium Haussknecht, Institut für Spezielle Botanik, Zürich Herbaria

contributed to creative work

Popular Science

described by source

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Otto's encyclopedia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Pioneers and Milestones of Indonesian Geology 3. Paleontologists and Other Specialists

doctoral advisor

Johannes Peter Müller

doctoral student

Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch, Arnold Lang, Otto Schmiedeknecht, Emil Goeldi, Hans Friedrich Gadow, Carl Friedrich Roewer

educated at

Frederick William University Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

employer

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

interested in

comparative anatomy

languages spoken, written or signed

German, Latin

member of

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Zoological Society of London, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, American Philosophical Society, Academy of Sciences of Turin, Deutscher Monistenbund

name in native language

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

nominated for

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

relative

Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek

student

Oscar Hertwig, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Heinrich Höhr

student of

Albert von Kölliker, Franz von Leydig, Rudolf Virchow

topic's main category

Category:Ernst Haeckel

writing language

German

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