Biography

Arnold Dodel (or Dodel-Port) was a Swiss botanist and advocate of Darwin's evolutionary theory.

He studied biology at the University of Geneva, at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich and at the University of Munich. In 1869, he received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg. He was Professor of Botany at the University of Zürich from 1883 to 1903.