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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 Ernst Haeckel Correspondence Vol. 22

    Ernst Haeckel: Ausgewählte Briefkorrespondenz. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. Volume 22: Korrespondenzen zu Weltanschauung, Kunst und Literatur. Österreich und Schweiz August 1894 - August 1914

    Book cover of the 22nd volume with a portrait of Marie Eugenie delle Grazie
    Picture: Vorname Nachname
  2. New Publication

    Ernst Haeckel (2025): Ausgewählte Briefwechsel. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. Bd. 21. Jörn Bohr unter Mitarbeit von Daniela Prutscher. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner

    Cover of Edition 21
    Image: Hg. v. Bd. 21
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  • Long Night of museums 2025

    This year, the Briefedition was once again present at the Long Night of Museums and provided an insight into Haeckel's radiolarian research

    The Owl of the Long Night of Museums
    Graphic: Jena Kultur
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