German Marine Biologists - Anton Dohrn, Rudolf Von Willemoes-Suhm, Stephanie Schwabe, Karin Lochte, Carl Chun, Otto Kinne (Paperback)

Chapters: Anton Dohrn, Rudolf Von Willemoes-Suhm, Stephanie Schwabe, Karin Lochte, Carl Chun, Otto Kinne. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Felix Anton Dohrn (29 September 1840 - 26 September 1909) was a prominent German Darwinist and the founder and first director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy. Dohrn was born in Stettin (Szczecin), 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 (Konigsberg, Bonn, Jena and Berlin), with little application or enthusiasm for his studies. His ideas changed in summer 1862 when he returned to study at Jena, where Ernst Haeckel introduced him to Darwin's work and theories. Dohrn became a fervent defender of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. At that time comparative embryology was the keystone of morphological evolutionary studies, based on Haeckel's recapitulation theory, the idea that an organism during its embryonic development passes through the major stages of the evolutionary past of its species. Morphology became one of the major ways in which zoologists sought to expand and develop Darwinian theory in the latter years of the 19th century. Dohrn chose to become a "Darwinian morphologist." Dohrn received his doctorate in 1865 at Breslau, and his Habilitation in 1868 at Jena. During these times, he worked several times at facilities located on by the sea: Helgoland alongside Haeckel in 1865, Hamburg in 1866, Millport, Scotland with David Robertson in 1867 and 18...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=154697