Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel
Born	(1834-02-16)16 February 1834 Potsdam
Died	9 August 1919(1919-08-09) (aged 85) Jena
Nationality	Prussia (later  German Empire)
Awards	Linnean Medal (1894) Darwin–Wallace Medal (Silver, 1908)
Scientific career
Author abbrev. (zoology)	Haeckel

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was an influential German zoologist, naturalist, and artist.^[1] He was also a philosopher and physician, but in those fields he is not regarded as particularly notable.^[2] He was an atheist.^[3] He left the Lutheran church in 1910. He is regarded as a pioneer of eugenics and Nazi eugenics in Germany.

1. ↑ Ernst Haeckel in Encyclopædia Britannica Concise, 2006, Concise. Britannica.com webpage: CBritannica-Haeckel Archived 2006-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
2. ↑ Haeckel, Ernst. 1900. The riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century. Harper, reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-108-00089-5
3. ↑ The New York Times