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biologo, zoologo, filosofo e artista tedesco

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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German biologist, physician, zoologist, and philosopher. Born in Potsdam in 1834, he died in Jena in 1919. He held citizenship in the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, and the Weimar Republic. Haeckel worked in the field of common descent and earned a doctorate from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His doctoral advisor was Johannes Peter Müller, and he studied under Albert von Kölliker, Franz von Leydig, and Rudolf Virchow.

Haeckel was employed by Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Zoological Society of London, and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He received the Darwin Medal, Cothenius Medal, Darwin–Wallace Medal, and Linnean Medal. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His doctoral students included Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch, Arnold Lang, Otto Schmiedeknecht, and Emil Goeldi.

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Given name
August
Gender
male
Place of birth
Potsdam
Place of death
Jena
Languages spoken
Latin
Academic degree
doctorate
Doctoral advisor
Johannes Peter Müller
Student of
Rudolf Virchow
Doctoral student
Carl Friedrich Roewer
Field of work
common descent
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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (Potsdam, 16 febbraio 1834 – Jena, 9 agosto 1919) è stato un biologo, zoologo, filosofo e artista tedesco. Desmonema annasethe (Haeckel), Floscula promethea (Haeckel), Chrysaora mediterranea (Peron). Haeckel chiama D. annasethe la medusa dopo la morte della prima moglie Anna Sethe, avvenuta nel 1864, l'anno precedente la prima osservazione dell'organismo.Ernst Haeckel ritratto da Theodor Mayerhofer

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