Ernst Haeckel as a botanist - reconstruction and contextualisation

恩斯特·海克尔（Ernst Haeckel，1834-1919）不仅对动物学和进化生物学做出了杰出贡献，而且成为达尔文主义的重要传播者、旅行报告的作者和艺术家。虽然他主要是作为一个动物学家，他开始进入科学与植物学。这是迄今未发表的信件，日记，图纸和他的大型，但未开发的植物标本馆记录。海克尔的植物学研究过程及其对他后来的科学生涯的影响只有很少的了解。该项目的主要目标是首次调查海克尔的植物遗产。根据恩斯特-海克尔档案耶拿（信件，日记，手稿和图纸）和Herbarium-Haussknecht耶拿（恩斯特海克尔标本馆）的材料，我们将调查海克尔的早期植物学研究对他的科学生涯，收集模式和他的旅行报告的风格的影响。在Haussknecht植物标本馆，一系列海克尔的植物标本将被数字化，与他的信件和日记中提到的植物有关。基于这种跨学科的合作，该项目将探索海克尔科学活动的鲜为人知的方面，并在其历史背景下研究他的植物学研究。

Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) did not only make outstanding contributions to Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, but also became an important propagator of Darwinism, an author of travel reports and an artist. Although he was mostly known as a zoologist, he started off into science with botany. This is documented by hitherto unpublished letters, diaries, drawings and his large, yet unexplored herbarium. The course of Haeckel’s botanical studies and its influence on his subsequent scientific career is only poorly understood. The main goal of the project is to investigate Haeckel’s botanical heritage for the first time. Based on material from the Ernst-Haeckel-Archive Jena (letters, diaries, manuscripts and drawings) and the Herbarium-Haussknecht Jena (Herbarium Ernst Haeckel) we will investigate the influence of Haeckel’s early botanical studies on his scientific career, mode of collecting and the style of his travel reports. At the Herbarium Haussknecht, a selection of Haeckel’s herbarium-specimens will be digitized in connection with plants mentioned in his letters and diaries. Based on this interdisciplinary cooperation, the project will explore a little known facet of Haeckel’s scientific activity and study his botanical studies in their historical context.