Johannes Roth

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Johannes Rudolf Roth (September 4, 1815 – June 26, 1858) was a German zoologist and traveler.

Roth was born in Nuremberg to Karl Johann Friedrich von Roth, supreme president of the Bavarian consistory (Oberkonsistorialpräsidenten). The younger Roth studied medicine and natural sciences, and in 1836–37 accompanied Theodor Friedrich von Schubert on his expedition to Egypt and Palestine. Beginning in 1839 he traveled to the East Indies and the northwest coast of Africa. In 1843 he became Professor of Zoology at the University of Munich. He undertook two more journeys to Palestine, starting in 1852 and 1856 respectively, and died on the latter in 1858, while in the Anti-Lebanon.