Ernst Ehrenbaum


Ernst M. E. Ehrenbaum was a German biologist and oceanographer.

Biography

Ehrenbaum was born in Perleberg, Province of Brandenburg, Prussia. He studied natural sciences at the universities of Berlin, Würzburg and Kiel, receiving his degree at the latter institution in 1884. From 1888 to 1892 he was head of a wanderstation for German sea fishermen, and afterwards served as custodian for sea fishing at the Biological Institute Helgoland. From 1910 to 1931 he was director of the fish laboratory at the Museum of Natural History in Hamburg. He died in Marburg an der Lahn.

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