Hall of Fame: Ernst Haeckel

Biographical info

Name: Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

Born: 1834; Died: 1919

PhD:

Major Accomplishments:
Haeckel served as professor and director of the Zoologisches Institut of the University of Jena, and was a prominent figure in his time as a staunch advocate of Darwinism. He was also responsible for many of the words that we use today (as well as a few that we do not), including gastrula, coelom, and monophyly, and ideas such as Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, the Biogenetic Law, the Gastraea theory. He was a rapid writer and creative illustrator, and wrote monographs on the systematics of the radiolarians, the sponges, and the medusae. His "System der Medusen" (1879-1880) was largely responsible for the medusa classification that we still use today.

Honorific taxa:
Haeckelia Carus, 1863 (Ctenophora)

Asteropus haeckeli Dendy, 1905
Leucetta haeckeliana Polejaeff, 1883
Pilochrota haeckeli Sollas, 1886
Margelopsis haeckeli Hartlaub, 1897 [Cnidaria: Hydrozoa]
Pantachogon haeckeli Maas, 1893 [Cnidaria: Hydrozoa]
Lucernaria haeckeli (Antipa, 1892) [Cnidaria: Scyphozoa]
Protiara haeckeli Hargitt, 1902 [Cnidaria: Hydrozoa]
Pseudorhiza haeckeli Haacke, 1884 [Cnidaria: Scyphozoa]
Colobomatus haeckeli (Richiardi, 1877)
Actinostephanus haeckeli Kwietniewski C. R., 1897

BIBLIOGRAPHY (Incomplete)

Haeckel, E. (1864). “Beschreibung neuer craspedoten Medusen aus dem Golfe von Nizza.” Jena Z. Naturw. Bd. 1: 325-342.

Haeckel, E. (1865). Die familie der Russelquallen (Geryonida). Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.

Haeckel, E. (1866). Generelle morphologie der Organismen, vol. 2. Berlin, Verlag von Georg Reimer.

Haeckel, E. (1869). “Über die Crambessiden, eine neue Medusen Familie aus der Rhizostomeengruppe.” Z. wiss. Zool. 19(4): 509-537, pls. 38-39.

Haeckel, E. (1877). “Prodrom. Syst. Medus.” No. 103 [unpublished].

Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen: Erster Theil einer Monographie der Medusen. Jena, G. Fischer.

Haeckel, E. (1880). System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena, Denkschriften.

Haeckel, E. (1881). Die tiefseemedusen der Challenger-Reise und der organismus der medusen. Jena.

Haeckel, E. (1881). “Report on the deepsea medusae dredged by the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876.” Rept. Challenger Expd. (Zoology) 4: 1-154, pl. 1-32.

Haeckel, E. (1881). Metagenesis und hypogenesis von Aurelia aurita. Ein beitrag zur entwickelungsgeschichte und zur teratologie der medusen, von Ernst Haeckel. Mit zwei tafeln. Jena, G. Fischer.

Haeckel, E.-. (1888a). “System der Siphonophoren.” Jena Zeitschr. Naturwiss. 22: 1-46.

Haeckel, E.-. (1888b). “Report on the Siphonophorae collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876.” Rep. Sci. Res. H.M.S. Challenger, (Zool) 35: 1-380.

Haeckel, E. (1892 -- Poche says 1896). ??? Systematische Phylogenie.

LINKS

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