Franz Hermann Troschel

Franz Hermann Troschel (10 October 1810 – 6 November 1882) was a German zoologist born in Spandau.

He studied mathematics and natural history at the University of Berlin, where he was awarded his doctorate in 1834.[1] From 1840 to 1849 he was an assistant to Martin Lichtenstein at the Natural History Museum of Berlin.[1] In 1849 he became a professor of zoology and natural history at the University of Bonn. In 1851 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[2]

Troschel is remembered for the identification and classification of species in the fields of malacology, ichthyology and herpetology.

  1. ^ a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Troschel", p. 268).
  2. ^ Franz Herrmann Troschel Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.