Ludwig Carl Christian Koch

Ludwig Carl Christian Koch ( born November 8, 1825 Regensburg, † November 1, 1908 in Nuremberg ) was a German entomologist and Arachnologe (insects and spiders researchers ).

Ludwig Carl Christian Koch was the son of the famous arachnologists Carl Ludwig Koch ( 1778-1857 ). He studied law at the University of Erlangen, before 1847 the medicine and the natural sciences turned to. In the same year he joined the Zoological and Mineralogical Club at Regensburg. In 1851 he received his doctorate, in 1853, he worked in the district of Nuremberg Wöhrd as a general practitioner.

He is regarded as one of the four most important representatives of insects and spiders customer in the second half of the 19th century and described alongside native species, for example, arachnids from the Mediterranean, from Asia ( Siberia, Japan) and Australia. The species described by him are donated by L. Koch. This work as a specialist researcher in the field of spiders brought him as Spider cook a worldwide reputation. Later, Koch was predominantly concerned with conches.

Works

• The Myriapodengattung Lithobius. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nuremberg 1862
• The arachnid family of Drassiden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nuremberg 1866
• About Clear presentation of the European Chernetiden ( pseudo- scorpions ). Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1873
• Egyptian and Abyssinian Arachnida collected by Mr. C. Jickeli. Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1875
• Directory that observed in Tirol far arachnids along with descriptions of some new or less known species. 1876
• Japanesische arachnids and myriapods. With 2 tables (submitted to the Assembly on 3 October 1877. ) In: Proceedings of the K.-K. Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, born in 1877, Volume 27, W. Braumüller, Vienna 1878, page 735-798 & Plates XV and XVI.
• Arachnids from Siberia and Novaya Zemlya collected by the Swedish expedition in 1875. PA Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1879
• The arachnids of Australia (1871-1883) was terminated by Eugen von Keyserling for him.