Karl Grobben

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Karl Grobben
Born
Karl Grobben

(1854-08-27)27 August 1854
Died13 April 1945(1945-04-13) (aged 90)

Karl Grobben (27 August 1854, in Brno – 13 April 1945, in Salzburg) was an Austrian biologist.[1] He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna, chiefly on molluscs and crustaceans. He was also the editor of a new edition of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus' Lehrbuch der Zoologie, and the coiner of the terms protostome and deuterostome.[1]

Taxonomy

Taxa named by Grobben include:

Taxa named in Grobben's honour include:

References

  1. ^ a b Georg Uschmann (1966). "Grobben, Karl". Sibenter Band. Grassauer – Hartmann. Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Duncker & Humblot. p. 101.
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  3. ^ a b c d e f Hans G. Hanssen. "Karl Grobben". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Baltic and North East Atlantic Taxa. Archived from the original on August 30, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2011.