Johann Jakob Heckel

Johann Jakob Heckel
Johann Jakob Heckel
Born(1790-01-23)23 January 1790
Died12 March 1857(1857-03-12) (aged 67)
NationalityAustrian
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsNaturhistorisches Museum

Johann Jakob Heckel (23 January 1790 – 1 March 1857) was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim in the Electoral Palatinate. He worked at the Royal natural history cabinet in Vienna which later became the Austrian Museum of Natural History.