Herr and Frau Bodinus must have been proud when their son, Heinrich Bodinus, chose to study medicine in Greifswald and Berlin. He hung his shingle as a general practitioner in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, but in 1852, he moved back to Greifswald and began to study zoology. While it may have puzzled his family that … Continue reading The Great Dane’s Name Debate