Friedrich Dahl

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Karl Friedrich Theodor Dahl (born June 24, 1856 in Rosenhofer Brök north of Dahme, Holstein; died June 29, 1929 in Greifswald) was a German zoologist.

The son of a farmer, Dahl studied at the universities of Leipzig, Freiburg, Berlin and Kiel. After becoming a Privatdozent in 1887, he traveled to the Baltic states and to the Bismarck Archipelago near New Guinea. Although he described many animal groups, he concentrated on spiders. He was interested in biogeography.

On June 19, 1899 he married Maria Dahl (1872-1972), a co-worker at the zoological institude of Kiel. She also published several works on spiders.