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Richard Böhm (1 October 1854 − 27 March 1884) was a German zoologist and explorer.
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Life
Richard Böhm was the son of Ludwig Böhm, a prominent Physician and Franziska Louise (born Franziska Meyerlinck). As a child, he received a copy of Brehms Tierleben for Christmas, which "became a source of unimagined pleasure" for the young Böhm. He studied zoology at theFriedrich Schiller University
The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.
The un ...
in Jena with the Darwinist
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Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new sp ...
(1834–1919) and attained a doctorate in 1877. His disseration was on Helgoland leptomeduses
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. In April 1880, he and Paul Reichard Paul Reichard (2 December 1854 – 16 September 1938) was a German explorer who traveled extensively in Africa.
His discoveries led to the establishment of the German East Africa Protectorate.
Early years
Paul Reichard was born on 2 December 1854 ...
went on an expedition to Zanzibar and then, in East Africa, the east bank of Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika () is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. ...
and the southeast of Lake Upemba, which he discovered. 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. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1888 Ed. Herman Schalow). Böhm wrote numerous articles in the '' Journal of Ornithology'' from 1882 to 1887. He was one of the first zoologists to research the animals between the East-African steppe
In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the temperate grasslands, ...
and West-African forest and discovered numerous new species of birds. He died of an attack of malaria.
Species Named After Böhm
Anton Reichenow
Anton Reichenow (1 August 1847 in Charlottenburg – 6 July 1941 in Hamburg) was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.
Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Natural History Museum of Berlin from 1874 to 1921. He wa ...
(1847–1941) and Herman Schalow (1852–1925) dedicated bird species to him.
*''Merops boehmi
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'' (Reichenow 1882)
*''Sarothrura boehmi
The streaky-breasted flufftail (''Sarothrura boehmi'') is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae.
It is sparsely spread across wet grasslands of central Africa.
The name of this bird commemorates the German zoologist Richard Böhm
Ri ...
'' (Reichenow 1900)
*''Neafrapus boehmi
''Neafrapus'' is a genus of swift in the family Apodidae.
It contains the following species:
* Böhm's spinetail (''Neafrapus boehmi'')
* Cassin's spinetail
Cassin's spinetail (''Neafrapus cassini'') is a species of swift in the family Apodida ...
'' (Schalow 1882)
*''Muscicapa boehmi
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'' (Reichenow 1884).
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