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He discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology , including ecology , [ 2 ] phylum , [ 3 ] phylogeny , [ 4 ] and Protista. The published artwork of Haeckel includes over detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures , collected in his Kunstformen der Natur "Art Forms of Nature" , a book which would go on to influence the Art Nouveau artistic movement.

Haeckel promoted scientific racism [ 9 ] and embraced the idea of Social Darwinism. In Haeckel attained a doctorate in medicine, and afterwards he received the license to practice medicine. The occupation of physician appeared less worthwhile to Haeckel after contact with suffering patients. Haeckel studied under Carl Gegenbaur at the University of Jena for three years.

In he earned a habilitation in comparative anatomy and became a professor of zoology at the University at Jena , where he remained for 47 years, from to Between and Haeckel worked on many phyla, such as radiolarians , poriferans sponges and annelids segmented worms. On 17 October he arrived in London.

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Over the next few days he met Charles Lyell , and visited Thomas Huxley and family at their home. Their son Walter was born in , their daughters Elizabeth in and Emma in Haeckel retired from teaching in , and in he withdrew from the Evangelical Church of Prussia. On the occasion of his 80th birthday celebration he was presented with a two-volume work entitled Was wir Ernst Haeckel verdanken What We Owe to Ernst Haeckel , edited at the request of the German Monistenbund by Heinrich Schmidt of Jena.

In , his first wife, Anna Sethe, died. Haeckel dedicated some species of jellyfish that he found beautiful such as Desmonema annasethe to her.