Stazione Zoologica
The Zoological Station of Naples, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Italian, is a biological research institute based in the Italian city of Naples and is one of the oldest continuously existing bioscience research institutions in the world. It was founded in March 1872 by the German zoologist Anton Dohrn, who gratuitously received from the city of Naples a suitable piece of land and the establishment of the station from his private funds and financed through borrowings into his circle of acquaintances. Dohrn opened the station for scientists in September 1873, to the public in January 1874.
The research activities at the Naples zoological station are on basic research and interdisciplinary and shall focus mainly questions from the fields of marine biology, animal physiology and evolutionary biology, cell and developmental biology, and ecology. The relevant factors include the interests and projects of the guest scientists working at the station. Characteristic of the work is beyond the existing international focus since the establishment of the station, which was repeated a model for the emergence of similar institutions in other countries. From the station, the magazine " Mittheilungen from the Zoological Station at Naples, " was published, the 1916 to 1978 appeared under the title " Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli " and since 1980 has the title " Marine Ecology" 1879 to 1915. In addition, the device publishes the journal "History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences".
The working at the station scientists listed in the course of its history, among other Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Koch, Theodor Boveri, Jacob van Rees and Otto Warburg. Currently, at the station, which is funded as a national research institute of the Italian Ministry for Science and Research, employs around 300 people.
Art History is of great importance financed by Konrad Fiedler frescoes in the library of the Zoological Station of Naples. They come from Hans von Marées, who was assisted in by Adolf von Hildebrand.