Richard Böhm

Richard Böhm (1 October 1854 − 27 March 1884) was a German zoologist and explorer.

Life Böhm was born on 1 October 1854, in Berlin, to Ludwig—a physician—and Franziska Louise Böhm (née 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 the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with the Darwinist Ernst Haeckel and attained a doctorate in 1877. His dissertation was on Helgoland leptomeduses. He was one of the first zoologists to research the animals between the East-African steppe and West-African forest and discovered numerous new species of birds. He died on 27 March 1884, aged 29, in Katapana, from malaria.

Species Named After Böhm Anton Reichenow and Herman Schalow dedicated bird species to him.

Merops boehmi (Reichenow 1882) Sarothrura boehmi (Reichenow 1900) Neafrapus boehmi (Schalow 1882) Muscicapa boehmi (Reichenow 1884).