Biographie
Biography of Ernst Heinrich Haeckel,
1834-1911. From: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th
Edition, 1910-1911.
 German
biologist, was born at Potsdam on the 16th of
February 1834. He studied medicine and science at
Würzburg, Berlin and Vienna, having for his
masters such men as Johannes Müller, R. Virchow
and R. A. Kölliker and in 1857 graduated at
Berlin as M.D. and M. Ch.
It
happened that just when he was beginning his
scientific career Darwin's Origin
of Species was published (1859),
and such was the influence it exercised over him
that he became the apostle of Darwinism in
Germany. He was, indeed, the first German
biologist to give a wholehearted adherence to the
doctrine of organic evolution and to treat it as
the cardinal conception of modern biology. It was
he who first brought it prominently before the
notice of German men of science in his first
memoir on the Radiolaria, which
was completely pervaded with its spirit, and
later at the congress of naturalists at Stettin
in 1863.
http://www.gennet.org/haeckel.htm
 Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919)
wiedemann@pyrrhon.de
Der
deutsche Zoologe und Philosoph war von
1865 - 1909 ordentlicher Professor in Jena.
In
zahlreichen naturphilosophischen Schriften
vertrat er den
Darwinismus.
Bekannt wurde Haeckel
vor allem durch seine Formulierung des biogenetischen Grundgesetzes
(oder Rekapitulationsgesetzes):
Die Ontogenese, d. h. die Entwicklung des Individuums, rekapituliert
die Phylogenese, die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Gattung.
http://phaidon.philo.at/~pyrrhon/philos/haeckel.htm
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)
Ernst
Haeckel, much like Herbert Spencer, was always
quotable, even when wrong. Although best known
for the famous statement "ontogeny
recapitulates phylogeny", he also coined
many words commonly used by biologists today,
such as phylum, phylogeny, and ecology.
On the other hand, Haeckel also stated that
"politics is applied biology", a quote
used by Nazi propagandists. The Nazi party,
rather unfortunately, used not only Haeckel's
quotes, but also Haeckel's justifications for
racism, nationalism and social darwinism.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/haeckel.html
Ernst Haeckel: Evangelist for Evolution
and Apostle of Deceit
Russell Grigg
Born
at Potsdam, Prussia (now Germany), on February 16,
1834, Haeckel studied medicine and science at Würtzburg
and the University of Berlin, and was professor
of zoology at Jena from 1865 until his retirement
in 1909. The turning point in his thinking was
his reading of Charles Darwin's Origin of
Species, which had been translated into
German in 1860.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/380.asp
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