Richard Böhm was a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 zoologist and explorer.

Richard Böhm was the son of Ludwig Böhm and Franziska Louise, born Meyerlinck. He studied zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel

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 (1834-1919) and attained a doctorate in 1877. Afterwards he went on an expedition to Africa exploring Zanzibar

Zanzibar

Zanzibar ,Persian: زنگبار, from suffix bār: "coast" and Zangi: "bruin" ; is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, in East Africa. It comprises the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of numerous small islands and two large ones: Unguja , and Pemba...

 and then, in East Africa, the east bank of Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake...

 and the southeast of Lake Upemba

Lake Upemba

Lake Upemba is a lake in Bukama, Haut-Lomami District, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It, and nearby Lake Kisale, is surrounded by the Upemba Depression in Upemba National Park...

, which he discovered (1880-1884). His correspondence appeared in 1888 under the title Ostafrika, Sansibar und Tanganjika heraus: Von Sansibar zum Tanganjika, Briefe aus Ostafrika von Dr. Richard Böhm (J. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1888 Ed. Herman Schalow). Böhm wrote numerous articles in the Journal of Ornithology

Journal of Ornithology

The Journal of Ornithology is a scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft. It was founded by Jean Cabanis in 1853, becoming the official journal of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft in 1854....

from 1882 to 1887. He died of an attack of malaria

Malaria

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. Anton Reichenow

Anton Reichenow

Anton Reichenow was a German ornithologist.Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Humboldt Museum from 1874 to 1921. He was an expert on African birds, making a collecting expedition to West Africa in 1872 and 1873, and writing Die Vögel Afrikas...

 (1847-1941) and Herman Schalow

Herman Schalow

Herman Schalow , also incorrectly written Hermann Schalow, was a German ornithologist .Herman Schalow was a banker. He studied ornithology as an amateur with Jean Louis Cabanis and worked with Anton Reichenow...

 (1852-1925) dedicated bird species to him.

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