Franz Hermann Troschel

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, and beginning in 1840 was an assistant to Martin Lichtenstein (1780-1857) at the Humboldt Museum of Natural History in Berlin. In 1849 he became a professor of zoology and natural history at the University of Bonn.

Troschel is remembered for the identification and classification of species in the fields of malacology, ichthyology and herpetology. A few of the species that contain his name are Troschel's sea star (Evasterias troschelii), Troschel's parrotfish (Chlorurus troschelii), Troschel's murex (Murex troschelii) and freshwater snail Bithynia troschelii.

Bibliography

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• System der Asteriden. Braunschweig 1842 (With Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858).
• Über die Bedeutsamkeit of the naturgeschichtlichen Unterrichts. Berlin 1845.
• Horae ichthyologicae. Berlin 1845-49, 3 volumes (With Johannes Peter Müller).
• Handbuch der Zoologie, third edition, Berlin 1848/1853/1859/1864/1871, (original authors Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann (1802-1841) and Johann Friedrich Ruthe (1788-1859)).
• Troschel F. H. 1856-1879. Das Gebiß der Schnecken zur Begründung einer natürlichen Klassifikation. Berlin 1856-1879, two volumes. Volume 1 and volume 2 were published in parts:
  • 1856. Volume 1, part 1: 1-72, plates 1-4.
  • (before 30 October) 1857. 1(2): 73-112, plates 5-8.
  • 1858. 1(3): 113-152, plates 9-12.
  • 1861. 1(4): 153-196, plates 13-16.
  • 1863. 1(5): i-viii, 197-252, plates 17-20.
  • (December) 1865. 2(1): 1-48, plates 1-4.
  • (December) 1867. 2(2): 49-96, plates 5-8.
  • 1869. 2(3): 97-132, plates 9-12.
  • 1875. 2(4): 133-180, plates 13-16.
  • (18 September) 1878. 2(5): 181-216, plates 17-20.
  • (2 September) 1879. 2(6): 217-246, plates 21-24.
  • Two last parts 2(7) and 2(8) were continued by Johannes Thiele and published in 1891 and 1893.
• Troschel F. H. 1869 Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Volume 2, Berlin, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung.

References

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
• H. von Dechen, 1883. Zur Erinnerung an Dr. Franz Hermann Troschel; Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereines der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 40 (Correspondenzblatt 1): p. 35-54 (biography and bibliography).