Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn

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Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn (16 June 1838 – 1 October 1913) was a German scientist who studied animals. He worked as a zoologist, an insect expert (focusing on Orthoptera and Lepidoptera), and a mollusk specialist.

Dohrn came from a scientific family in Pomerania. His father was entomologist Carl August Dohrn, and his brother Anton Dohrn founded the marine station at Messina and later the Stazione Zoologica. Heinrich studied in Stettin and earned his diploma in 1858. He collected natural history specimens on Príncipe in 1865.

In 1856 he joined the Stettin Entomological Society, started by his father. He helped create a museum in Stettin to hold the town’s natural history collections, which later became an art museum. The museum opened to the public in 1913.

In 1904 he worked with Adolf Furtwängler to reconstruct Greek marble fragments. Dohrn invested in tobacco plantations in Sumatra (Soekaranda) and visited the area three times, collecting mainly Lepidoptera. He had interests in music, politics, and art, and was a liberal member of the German parliament from 1874 to 1907.

For health reasons he went to Naples and lived at Villa Pavone. He died in Florence while on the way to Naples.