Fritz Müller (doctor)

Friedrich "Fritz" Müller (8 May 1834 – 10 March 1895) was a Swiss doctor, zoologist, and herpetologist.

After further experience in Vienna, Paris and Berlin, he returned to Basel to practise medicine.

He was a founder member of the regional medical society in 1860 and took a leading role in the sanitary services in Basel, which he directed from 1872.

His zoological work focussed on reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans and arachnids.

[3] His name is also associated with the herpetological species Eryx muelleri (Müller's sand boa) [4] and Calamaria muelleri (Mueller's reed snake),[5] both species being described by George Albert Boulenger;[2] and with Micrelaps muelleri (Müller's black-headed snake), a species of venomous snake described by Oskar Boettger.