Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, physician, and philosopher (died 1919)

Ernst Haeckel

German biologist, philosopher, physician, and artist (1834–1919)

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…