Hermann Trautschold

Gustav Heinrich Ludwig Hermann Trautschold (, tr. ; 17 September 1817 – October 22, 1902) was a German-Russian geologist and paleontologist and also pharmacist. From 1869 to 1888 he was a professor at the Petrovsky Agricultural and Forestry Academy. Trautschold was known as a specialist in the paleontology and stratigraphy of Carboniferous, Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits of the European part of Russia. He was brother of painter Wilhelm Trautschold.

Life Hermann Gustav Heinrich Ludwig Trautschold was born on September 17, 1817, in Berlin, In Russia he also promoted the Darwinist and paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevsky. 1894 Honorary member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture and he was a member of the German Geological Society and honorary member of the Belgian Geological Society.

Death Trautschold died in Karlsruhe on October 22, 1902. Alphachoristites trautscholdi and Sanmartinoceras (Sinzovia) trautscholdi (Sinzow, 1870) (Cretaceous); species of the brachiopod Zeilleria trautscholdi (Neumayr, 1876) (Jurassic); species of ichthyosaurs Undorosaurus trautscholdi (Jurassic); species of synapsid Vivaxosaurus trautscholdi (Amalitzky 1922) (Perm); two types of horn corals – Lophophyllum trautscholdi (Stuckenberg, 1904) and Stereophrentis trautscholdi (Fomitshev, 1953) (Carboniferous); genus of sea lilies Trautscholdicrinus.

Works Hermann Trautschold Übergänge und Zwischenvarietäten Universitäts-Buchdruck 1861 Hermann Trautschold Ueber säkulare Hebungen und Senkungen der Erdoberfläche Habilitations-Abhandlung Kaiserlich Universität 1869