About Karl Grobben
Lived 1854 – 1945 (aged 90). Karl Grobben was an Austrian zoologist, university teacher, malacologist and carcinologist.
Karl Grobben (27 August 1854, in Brno – 13 April 1945, in Salzburg) was an Austrian zoologist. He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna, chiefly on molluscs and crustaceans. He was also the editor of a new edition of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus' Lehrbuch der Zoologie, and the coiner of the terms protostome and deuterostome.
Sphaerophthalmus grobbeni Spandl, 1923
Limnadia grobbeni Daday, 1925
Actinia grobbeni Watzl, 1922
Paladilhiopsis grobbeni Kuscer, 1928
Raillietina grobbeni Böhm, 1925
Trypanophis grobbeni (Poche, 1904)
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Who was Karl Grobben?
Austrian zoologist (1854–1945)
When was Karl Grobben born?
Karl Grobben was born on 27 August 1854 in Brno.
When did Karl Grobben die?
Karl Grobben died on 13 April 1945 in Salzburg.
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Karl Grobben was a zoologist, university teacher, malacologist and carcinologist.
What nationality was Karl Grobben?
Karl Grobben was Austrian.
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