Richard Böhm (1 October 1854 − 27 March 1884)[1] was a German zoologist and explorer.

[2] As a child, he received a copy of Brehms Tierleben for Christmas, which "became a source of unimagined pleasure" for the young Böhm.

[3] He studied zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with the Darwinist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) and attained a doctorate in 1877.

His correspondence appeared in 1888 under the title Ostafrika, Sansibar und Tanganjika heraus: Von Sansibar zum Tanganjika, Briefe aus Ostafrika von Dr. Richard Böhm (J.

[4] He was one of the first zoologists to research the animals between the East-African steppe and West-African forest and discovered numerous new species of birds.