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Haeckel correspondence project "Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919): Briefedition"

Long-term project funded by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and is supervised by the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences
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The „Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919): Briefedition‟ is a long-term project funded by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and is supervised by the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences. It is situated at the Ernst-Haeckel-House in the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. The project consists of two modules, a 25-volume print edition (Ernst Haeckel: Selected correspondence. Historical-critical edition. Stuttgart 2017 ff.), as well as a complete online edition. The online edition will provide all of Haeckel's correspondence (with full texts and metadata) by 2037. 

  1. New Publication

    Haeckels ambivalentes Vermächtnis, NAL-historica 83, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften 2023.
    Cover of the new NAL-historica edition
    Picture: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart
  2. New Publication: Edition of letters vol. IV "Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919): Briefedition"

    Ernst Haeckel (2023): Ausgewählte Briefwechsel. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. Bd. 4. Roman Göbel and Claudia Taszus with the collaboration of Kathrin Polenz. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
    Ernst Haeckel - Ausgewählte Briefwechsel
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  • The owl as the logo of the Long Night of Museums
    Graphic: Jena Kultur
    Long Night of the Museums

    On May 31, 2024, the team of the correspondence project "Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)" took part in the Long Night of Museums in Jena. Here is a small review of the beautiful evening!