Eduard Eppelsheim

Eduard Eppelsheim (19 May 1837– 6 June 1896) was a Bavarian physician and coleopterologist who specialized in the Staphylinidae (rove beetles).

His collection of nearly 54000 beetle specimens is held in the natural history museum at Vienna.

He was educated at the Speyer Gymnasium before studying medicine at the Universities of Würzburg and Tübingen.

From 1874 he practiced at Grünstadt where his brother Friedrich Eppelsheim (1834–1899) was a district judge.

After his death, his beetle collection was purchased by the Natural History Museum at Vienna for 6000 Marks.