Heinrich Boie

Heinrich Boie (4 May 1794, Meldorf, Holstein – 4 September 1827, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia) was a German zoologist.

[2] Heinrich Boie studied law at Kiel and Göttingen.

He was appointed Coenraad Jacob Temminck's assistant at Leiden.

In 1825, he travelled to Java with Salomon Müller in order to collect specimens for the museum.

A species of Indian gecko, Cnemaspis boiei, is named in honor of Heinrich Boie or his brother Friedrich Boie.