Question: Facts: - death place: jena - prizes: linnean medal darwin -- wallace medal - death date: 9 august 1919 - author abbrev zoo: haeckel - birth date: 16 february 1834 - name: ernst haeckel - nationality: austro-hungary - image: ernst haeckel 5.jpg - birth place: potsdam Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ernst haeckel .
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ernst heinrich philipp august haeckel -lrb- ; 16 february 1834 -- 9 august 1919 -rrb- was a german biologist , naturalist , philosopher , physician , professor , and artist who discovered , described and named thousands of new species , mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms , and coined many terms in biology , including '' anthropogeny '' , '' ecology '' , '' phylum '' , '' phylogeny '' , '' stem cell '' , and '' protista . ''haeckel promoted and popularised charles darwin 's work in germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory -lrb- '' ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny '' -rrb- claiming that an individual organism 's biological development , or ontogeny , parallels and summarises its species ' evolutionary development , or phylogeny .the published artwork of haeckel includes over 100 detailed , multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures -lrb- see : '' kunstformen der natur '' , '' art forms of nature '' -rrb- .as a philosopher , ernst haeckel wrote '' die weltratsel '' -lrb- 1895 -- 1899 , in english , '' the riddle of the universe '' , 1901 -rrb- , the genesis for the term '' world riddle '' -lrb- '' weltratsel '' -rrb- ; and '' freedom in science and teaching '' to support teaching evolution .