Ernst Ehlers

Ernst Heinrich Ehlers (11 November 1835 – 31 December 1925) was a German zoologist born in Lüneburg.

He studied medicine and natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, earning his doctorate in 1861.

In 1869 he became a full professor of zoology, comparative anatomy and veterinary medicine at the University of Erlangen.

He was a leading authority on polychaetes, and is credited with describing many invertebrate species new to science.

The polychaete genus Ehlersia (de Quatrefages, 1866) from the family Syllidae is named after him.