Franz Doflein

Born in Paris in 1873 and later active in Germany, Franz Theodor Doflein was a zoologist whose main field was protozoology, the study of single-celled organisms. He is also described as working in systematic zoology and functional ecology, which gives a sense of how broad his scientific interests were.

Doflein wrote and edited scholarly works on animal life and helped shape zoological research in the early 20th century. Even from a brief record, he stands out as a scientist interested not only in describing animals, but in understanding them in relation to their environment.

He died in 1924 in Obernigk, in what was then Silesia. Today he is remembered chiefly through scientific references and historical accounts of German zoology.