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Ernst Haeckel: Ausgewählte Briefwechsel, Band 4: Familienkorrespondenz, März bis Oktober 1859 [Selected Correspondence, Volume 4: Family Correspondence, March to October 1859]

By: Ernst Haeckel(Author), Roman Göbel(Editor), Claudia Taszus(Editor)
721 pages
Ernst Haeckel: Ausgewählte Briefwechsel, Band 4: Familienkorrespondenz, März bis Oktober 1859 [Selected Correspondence, Volume 4: Family Correspondence, March to October 1859]
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  • Ernst Haeckel: Ausgewählte Briefwechsel, Band 4: Familienkorrespondenz, März bis Oktober 1859 [Selected Correspondence, Volume 4: Family Correspondence, March to October 1859] ISBN: 9783515134477 Hardback Apr 2023 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks
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Language: German

The Jena zoologist Ernst Haeckel is one of the most important, but also one of the most controversial natural scientists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As an enthusiastic supporter of Darwin, he worked on the continuation and popularization of the theory of evolution and thus became a symbolic figure in the worldview struggles of the time.

The fourth volume of family correspondence extends from March to November 1859 and documents the continuation of his educational and research journey in Italy. In Naples, he tried to develop an independent research program that would secure him an academic position and at the same time his marriage to Anna Sethe. After this failed, Haeckel used the summer for hiking, botanizing and drawing. On the crossing to Ischia, he met the poet Hermann Allmers and together they travelled to the ancient archaeological sites as well as Capri and Sicily. From October 1859, Haeckel worked intensively in the Bay of Messina and concentrated on the radiolarians, the work which was to form the basis for his monograph, which was awarded the Cothenius Medal of Leopoldina in 1864.

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Der Jenaer Zoologe Ernst Haeckel zählt zu den bedeutendsten, aber auch umstrittensten Naturwissenschaftlern des ausgehenden 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Als begeisterter Anhänger Darwins arbeitete er an der Weiterführung und Popularisierung der Evolutionstheorie und wurde damit zu einer Symbolfigur in den Weltanschauungskämpfen der Zeit.

Der vierte Band der Familienkorrespondenz reicht von März bis November 1859 und dokumentiert die Fortsetzung seiner Bildungs- und Forschungsreise in Italien. In Neapel versuchte er sich ein eigenständiges Forschungsprogramm zu erarbeiten, das ihm die akademische Stellung und zugleich die Heirat mit Anna Sethe sichern sollte. Nachdem dies missglückte, nutzte Haeckel den Sommer zum Wandern, Botanisieren und Zeichnen. Auf der Überfahrt nach Ischia lernte er den Marschendichter Hermann Allmers kennen und zusammen bereisten sie die antiken Ausgrabungsstätten sowie Capri und Sizilien. Ab Oktober 1859 arbeitete Haeckel schließlich intensiv in der Bucht von Messina und konzentrierte sich auf die Radiolarien, deren Bearbeitung die Grundlage für seine 1864 mit der Cothenius-Medaille der Leopoldina ausgezeichnete Monographie bilden sollte.

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By: Ernst Haeckel(Author), Roman Göbel(Editor), Claudia Taszus(Editor)
721 pages
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