Franz Hermann Troschel

Franz Hermann Troschel (10 October 1810 – 6 November 1882) was a German zoologist born in Spandau.

He studied mathematics and natural history at the University of Berlin, where he was awarded his doctorate in 1834.

[1] From 1840 to 1849 he was an assistant to Martin Lichtenstein at the Natural History Museum of Berlin.

[1] In 1849 he became a professor of zoology and natural history at the University of Bonn.

[2] Troschel is remembered for the identification and classification of species in the fields of malacology, ichthyology and herpetology.