Background
His father was the entomologist Carl August Dohrn (1806–1892) and his brother Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), founder of the short-lived marine station at Messina and then Stazione Zoologica.
His father was the entomologist Carl August Dohrn (1806–1892) and his brother Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), founder of the short-lived marine station at Messina and then Stazione Zoologica.
Heinrich Dohrn’s family was from Pomerania (now in Poland). He studied at Stettin getting his diploma 1858. He collected natural history specimens in Príncipe in 1865.
He opened the doors of the museum to the public in 1913.
He engaged in 1904, Adolf Furtwängler (1853–1907), professor of Archaeology at the University of Munich to reconstruct Greek marbles found as fragments.
National Liberal Party, Liberal Union, Free-minded Union.