Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 - August 8, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was a German biologist and philosopher who popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany. Haeckel was a physician, an accomplished artist and illustrator, and later a professor of comparative anatomy. He was one of the first to consider psychology as a branch of physiology. He also proposed many now ubiquitous terms including "phylum" and "ecology." His chief interests lay in evolution and life development processes in general, including development of nonrandom form, which culminated in the beautifully illustrated Kunstformen der Natur (Art forms of nature).

External links

• Ernst Haeckel biography
• Ernst Haeckel ? Evolution's controversial artist. A slide-show essay about Ernst Haeckel.
• Kunstformen der natur, scanned (from http://www.biolib.de/ Stuebers Online Library)
• PNG alpha-transparencies of Haeckel's "Kustformen der natur"