August von Froriep

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August von Froriep (September 10, 1849 - October 11, 1917) was a German anatomist who was born in Weimar. He studied medicine in Leipzig, and after earning his doctorate in 1874, he became an assistant to Christian Wilhelm Braune (1831-1892). Later he was a prosector and eventually a professor at the University of Tübingen. Following his death in 1917, he was succeeded by Martin Heidenhain (1864-1949) as professor of anatomy at Tübingen. He was the son of anatomist and publisher Robert Friedrich Froriep (1804-1861).

Froriep specialized in studies involving the development and biological morphology of the head and vertebra. His name is lent to Froriep's ganglion, which is a temporary group of nerve cells associated with the hypoglossal nerve of an embryo.

In 1911, Froriep claimed to have identified the "famous" skull of poet Friedrich von Schiller from a mass gravesite, of which he published an article titled Die Schädel Friedrich von Schillers und des Dichters Begräbnisstätte. However, there are detractors to Froriep's claim, and as of late-2007 the authenticity of the skull remains unproven.