Naples Zoological Station

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The building of the Naples Zoological Station
Detail of the fresco The fishermen's exit in the library of the Zoological Station, Hans von Marées, 1873

The Zoological Station Naples , Italian Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn , is a biological research institute based in the Italian city ​​of Naples and is one of the oldest continuously existing bioscientific research institutions in the world. It was founded in March 1872 by the German zoologist Anton Dohrn , who received a corresponding piece of land free of charge from the city of Naples and financed the construction of the station from his private funds and through loans from his circle of friends. Dohrn opened the station to scientists in September 1873 and to the public in January 1874.

The research activities at the Naples Zoological Station are fundamentally oriented and interdisciplinary and focus primarily on questions from the fields of marine biology , animal physiology and evolutionary biology , cell and developmental biology and ecology . The interests and projects of the visiting scholars working at the station are decisive. Another characteristic of the work is the international orientation of the station, which has existed since it was founded, and which has repeatedly served as a model for the establishment of comparable facilities in other countries. From 1879 to 1915, the station published the magazine “Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischer Station zu Neapel”, which appeared from 1916 to 1978 under the title “Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli” and since 1980 has been entitled “Marine Ecology”. In addition, the institution publishes the journal "History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences".

Scientists working at the station have included Fridtjof Nansen , Robert Koch , Theodor Boveri , Jacob van Rees , Nettie Stevens and Otto Warburg in the course of its history . The writer and entomologist Ernst Jünger also studied zoology there for some time in the 1920s. The station, which is financed as a national research institute by the Italian Ministry of Science and Research, currently employs around 300 people.

The frescoes in the library of the Naples Zoological Station, financed by Konrad Fiedler , are of great importance in terms of art history . They come from Hans von Marées , who was assisted in the execution by Adolf von Hildebrand .

literature

Web links

Commons : Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Helga Satzinger: Difference and Heredity: Gender Orders in Genetics and Hormone Research 1890-1950. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20339-9 , p. 127.
  2. ^ Paul Schubring : The frescoes of Hans von Marées' in Naples. In: Art for All. Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . Issue 8, 1902, pp. 169–176 (digitized version )
  3. The extended new editions are shortened titled Anton Dohrn . Wunderlich, Tübingen 1948, 1962. With a colored fresco by Marées' and other figs.
  4. The Zoolog. Station, the animal collections there and the surrounding area in the 1920s as a meeting point and occasion for philosophical discussions for Adorno, Walter Benjamin and many others - book readable in google books and in online bookshops

Coordinates: 40 ° 49 ′ 57.7 "  N , 14 ° 14 ′ 8.9"  E