Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (8 November 1825 – 1 November 1908) was a German entomologist and

arachnologist Arachnology is the scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related invertebrates such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, and harvestmen. Those who study spiders and other arachnids are arachnologists. More narrowly, the study of ...

. He was born in Regensburg,

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, and died in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

. He studied in Nuremberg, initially law, but then turned to medicine and science. From 1850, he practiced as a physician in the Wöhrd district of Nuremberg. He is considered among the four most influential scientists on insects and spiders in the second half of the 19th century. He wrote numerous works on the arachinoids of Europe, Siberia, and Australia. His work earned him worldwide reputation as "Spider Koch". Sometimes confused with his father Carl Ludwig Koch (1778–1857), another famous arachnologist, his name is abbreviated L.Koch on species descriptions; his father's name is abbreviated C.L.Koch Pierre Bonnet. ''Bibliographia araneorum,'' (1945) Les frères Doularoude (Toulouse).

Works

''Die Arachniden Australiens'' (1871-1883), his major work on Australian spiders, was completed by

Eugen von Keyserling Eugen von Keyserling (22 March 1833 in Pockroy, Lithuania – 4 April 1889 in Dzierżoniów, Silesia) was a Baltic-German arachnologist. He studied in the University of Tartu. He was the author of ''Die Spinnen Amerikas'', and completed ''Die A ...

due to the onset of blindness
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Cosmophasis ''Cosmophasis'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). They are predominantly Southeast Asian, while some species occur in Africa and Australia. Although most species more or less mimic ants, there are also colorful sp ...

micarioides'' L. Koch (drawn by L. Koch 1880) Image:Rhombonotus.gracilis.png, ''

Rhombonotus ''Rhombonotus'' is a monotypic genus of jumping spiders containing the single species, ''Rhombonotus gracilis''. It was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1879, and is found only in Queensland. The name is a combination of the Anc ...

gracilis'' (drawn by L. Koch, 1877)

References

* * 1825 births 1908 deaths German entomologists German arachnologists {{entomologist-stub