Franz Hermann Troschel
German zoologist (1810-1882) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.