Hubert Ludwig

Hubert Jakob Ludwig (22 March 1852 – 17 November 1913) was a German zoologist and marine biologist best known for his studies of echinoderms.

He also rewrote and produced the third edition of the textbook of zoology written by Johannes Leunis in 1883.

Ludwig was born in Trier in the Kingdom of Prussia where his father Jakob was a goldsmith.

He then became an assistant at the University of Göttingen under Ernst Ehlers and completed his habilitation in 1875 and became a privatdozent.

His most well known publication was the monograph on the Holothuroidea, Die Seewalzen, which was published as part of the series of Heinrich Georg Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des ThierReichs ("Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom").