Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn

Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn is a Entomologiste and a German Politician , born the June 16th 1838 with Braunschweig and dead on October 1st 1913 with Florence.

Its family is originating in Pommern (today in Poland). His/her father is the entomologist Carl August Dohrn (1806-1892) and his/her brother is the biologist Anton Dohrn (1840-1909), founder of the station of marine biology of Messine. He studies with Stettin and is graduate in 1858. He leaves to collect specimens of Natural history to Príncipe in 1865. He is at the origin of the museum of Stettin intended to expose the collections of the naturalists of the city, but quickly of the works of art occupies a major place. It opens its doors with the public in 1913. Dohrn requests, in 1904, Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), professor of Archéologie to the Université of Munich, to reconstitute Greek monuments which one knew that fragments.

It collects in particular the Gobemouche de Dohrn ( Horizorhinus dohrni ) by Gustav Hartlaub (1814-1900) in 1866.

Sources

  • Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins (2003). Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Close (New Haven and London): 400 p.
  • Mr. Lopuch (2004). Hellenic Stettin, Biuletyn Historii Sztuki , 66 (1-2): 127-144.

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