Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), more commonly known as Ernst von Haeckel or Ernst Haeckel, was an distinguished German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species. He also mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and the kingdom Protista. The published artwork of Haeckel, “Kunstformen der Natur” (Artforms of Nature) includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures.