Valentin Haecker
Ferdinand Carl Valentin Haecker was a German zoologist, reader at Freiburg University from 1892.
In 1900, he became professor at the University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart and in 1909 at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
He was president of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft from 1922.
He died unexpectedly from a stroke.
Haecker's contributions span the fields of ornithology, plankton cell biology,
developmental physiology, genetics.
He also published a historical treatise on Goethe's work on morphology.
