Jörn Köhler (born 23 June 1970 in

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

) is a German

herpetologist Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and rept ...

. He studied biology at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

and received a Ph.D. in zoology in 2000, being associated with the '' Zoologische Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig'', Bonn. His main research focus is on taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, biogeography and ecology of tropical amphibians and reptiles, mainly in South America and Africa. He is founder o
BIOPAT
in 1999. From 2007 to 2013 he was member of the steering committee of the German Herpetological Society
DGHT
and is Chief Editor o
SALAMANDRA - German Journal of Herpetology
Since 2005 he has worked as researcher and curator for vertebrate zoology at the ''

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (HLMD) is a large multidisciplinary museum in Darmstadt, Germany. The museum exhibits Rembrandt, Beuys, a primeval horse and a mastodon under the slogan "The whole world under one roof". As one of the oldest pub ...

'' and has published articles in various scientific journals.http://www.hlmd.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Publikationen_Dr_Koehler.pdf

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1970 births Living people Scientists from Göttingen German herpetologists University of Bonn alumni {{Germany-biologist-stub