Ludwig Böhmig (8 August 1858 – 5 January 1948) was an Austrian
zoologist
Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...
and
platyhelminthologist born in
Niederebersbach in the
Kingdom of Saxony
The Kingdom of Saxony () was a German monarchy in Central Europe between 1806 and 1918, the successor of the Electorate of Saxony. It joined the Confederation of the Rhine after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, later joining the German ...
.
Böhmig was a professor at the
University of Graz
The University of Graz (, formerly: ''Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz'') is a public university, public research university located in Graz, Austria. It is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-old ...
, where he was a long-time collaborator of zoologist
Ludwig von Graff
Ludwig Graff de Pancsova (2 January 1851 – 6 February 1924), known as Ludwig von Graff, was an Austrian zoologist born in Pancsova.
In 1871, he received his medical degree in Vienna, afterwards studying zoology at the University of Graz. In 1 ...
(1851–1924). From 1920 to 1929 he was director of the zoological institute at
Graz
Graz () is the capital of the Austrian Federal states of Austria, federal state of Styria and the List of cities and towns in Austria, second-largest city in Austria, after Vienna. On 1 January 2025, Graz had a population of 306,068 (343,461 inc ...
.
He specialized in
anatomical
Anatomy () is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old scien ...
and
histological
Histology,
also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy, is the branch of biology that studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissue (biology), tissues. Histology is the microscopic counterpart to gross anatomy, which looks at large ...
studies of
Turbellaria
The Turbellaria are one of the traditional sub-divisions of the phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms), and include all the sub-groups that are not exclusively parasitic. There are about 4,500 species, which range from to large freshwater forms mo ...
and
Nemertea
Nemertea is a phylum of animals also known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms, consisting of about 1300 known species. Most ribbon worms are very slim, usually only a few millimeters wide, although a few have relatively short but wide bodies. ...
, and is credited with providing
taxonomic
280px, Generalized scheme of taxonomy
Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme of classes (a taxonomy) and the allocation ...
nomenclature for a number of
flatworm
Platyhelminthes (from the Greek language, Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a Phylum (biology), phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, Segmentation (biology), ...
/
nemertine species. The species ''
Convoluta bohmigi'' (
Brauner, 1920) and ''Hypoblepharina boehmigi'' (
Karling, 1973) are named after him.
Written works
* ''Die Turbellaria
acoela
Acoela, or the acoels, is an order of small and simple invertebrates in the subphylum Acoelomorpha of phylum Xenacoelomorpha, a deep branching bilaterian group of animals, which resemble flatworms. Historically they were treated as an order ...
der Plankton-expedition'', 1895
* ''Beitrage zur Anatomie und Histologie der Nemertinen'' (Contributions to the anatomy and histology of
nemertines, 1898
* ''Turbellarien'', 1908
* ''Die Zelle (morphologie und vermehrung)'', 1920.
Yale Libraries
References
Botanik und Zoologie in Österreich in den Jahren 1850 bis 1900
(biographical information)
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1858 births
1948 deaths
People from Meissen (district)
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
Austrian zoologists
Academic staff of the University of Graz
German emigrants to Austria-Hungary