Ernst Erhard Schmid

Ernst Erhard Friedrich Wilhelm Schmid (22 May 1815 in Hildburghausen – 16 February 1885 in Jena) was a German paleontologist.

In 1843 he became an associate professor at Jena, where with Matthias Jakob Schleiden, he founded a physiological institute.

At the institute he dealt with subjects that included mineralogy, geology, chemistry and physics.

[1] In 1848 the ichthyopterygian species Tholodus schmidi was named in his honor by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer.

[2] With Matthias Jacob Schleiden, he was co-author of an encyclopedia of theoretical science titled: "Encyclopädie der gesammten theoretischen Naturwissenschaften" (1850).