Arnold Dodel-Port

Arnold Dodel-Port (16 October 1843, Affeltrangen – 11 April 1908, Zürich) was a Swiss botanist and forceful advocate of Darwin's evolutionary theory.

In 1870, he obtained his habilitation at the University of Zürich, where from 1883 to 1903, he served as a full professor of botany.

At Zürich, he founded a botanical microscopy laboratory.

[2] He was a freethinker and socialist, published works to further the cause of Darwinian evolution, and became one of the most prominent popularizers of science in the German-language realm.

During his lifetime, he maintained correspondence with Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel.