Eduard Dämel

Carl Friedrich Eduard Dämel also Damel, Daemel (1821–3 September 1900) was a German entomologist and natural history collector and dealer from Hamburg.

Dämel visited Australia three times, making natural history collections, many of which he later traded or sold. On his first trip, between 1852–1860 he mainly worked in the vicinity of Sydney but also visited Western Australia in 1859 and Port Curtis Gladstone, Queensland in 1860.

Legacy Dämel is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Australian venomous snake, Hemiaspis damelii and the Australian frog, Papurana daemeli.

Source Weidner, H. (1967). "Geschichte der Entomologie in Hamburg ". Abh. Verh. Naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg, N. F. 9 (Supplement): 5–387.