Anton Dohrn
| Felix Anton Dohrn | |
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| Born |
29 September 1840 Stettin (Szczecin), Pomerania, Prussia |
| Died | 26 September 1909 (aged 68) Munich |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Biology |
Felix Anton Dohrn FRS FRSE (29 September 1840 – 26 September 1909) was a prominent German Darwinist and the founder and first director of the first zoological research station in the world, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy.
Dohrn was born in Stettin (Szczecin), Prussian Province of Pomerania, into a wealthy middle class family. His grandfather, Heinrich Dohrn, had been a wine and spice merchant, and had made the family fortune by trading in sugar. This wealth allowed Anton's father, Carl August, to devote himself to his various hobbies; travelling, folk music and insects. Anton, the youngest son, read zoology and medicine at various German universities (Königsberg, Bonn, Jena and Berlin). His brother Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn was also a zoologist.
In 1874 Dohrn married sixteen-year-old Marie de Baranowska who he had met in Messina. They had four children Boguslaw, Wolfgang, Harald und Reinhard.
The Dohrn family. Anton, Marie and their four sons Boguslaw, Wolfgang, Harald und Reinhard.
Dohrn was initially interested in Hemiptera. In 1859, he published Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Harpactoridae in Entomologische Zeitung and the more important Catalogus hemipterorum. He gained his doctorate from Breslau in November 1865 with his thesis “On the Anatomy of Hemiptera". At this time, he became associated with the English scientific establishment through his father's friendship with Henry Tibbats Stainton. In 1866, he published a paper on fossil insects Zur Kenntniss der Insecten in den Primärformationen. In this he describes Eugereon boeckingi (Palaeodictyoptera).
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