What is Ernst Haeckel?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Ernst Haeckel |image = Ernst Haeckel 5.jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1834|2|16|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Potsdam]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1919|8|9|1834|2|16|df=y}} |death_place = [[Jena]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = {{flag|Prussia}} (later {{flag|German Empire}}) |ethnicity = |field = |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = Haeckel |prizes = {{no wrap|[[Linnean Medal]] {{small|(1894)}}<br />[[Darwin–Wallace Medal]] {{small|(Silver, 1908)}}}} |footnotes = }} '''Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel''' (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was an influential [[Germans|German]] [[zoologist]], [[naturalist]], and [[artist]].<ref>Ernst Haeckel in ''Encyclopædia Britannica Concise'', 2006, Concise. Britannica.com webpage: [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9366404/Ernst-Haeckel CBritannica-Haeckel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061111013059/http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9366404/Ernst-Haeckel |date=2006-11-11 }}</ref> He was also a [[philosopher]] and [[physician]], but in those fields he is not regarded as particularly notable.<ref>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}}</ref> He was an [[atheist]].<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C03EFDD123EE033A2575AC0A9659C946697D6CF&legacy=true The New York Times]</ref> He left the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] church in 1910. He is regarded as a pioneer of [[eugenics]] and [[Nazi eugenics]] in Germany. ==Works== Haekel was professor of [[comparative anatomy]] at the [[University of Jena]], where he worked for 47 years, from 1862 to 1909. Haekel discovered, described and named thousands of new