Karl Hermann Johannes Thiele was a German zoologist specialized in malacology. Thiele was born in Goldap, East Prussia. His Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde is a standard work. From 1904 until his retirement in 1925 he was the curator of the malacological collection at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Thiele described more than 1.500 new species of molluscs; until today their types are deposited with the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. Especially important are his works on the Mollusca of the First German Antarctica Expedition and of the German Deep Sea Expedition aboard the vessel Valdivia.
Georg Johann Pfeffer (1854–1931) was a German zoologist, primarily a malacologist, a scientist who studies mollusks.
Eduard von Martens also known as Carl or Karl Eduard von Martens, was a German zoologist.
Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper was a German botanist and phytogeographer who made major contributions in the fields of histology, ecology and plant geography. He travelled to South East Asia and the Caribbean as part of the 1899 deep-sea expedition. He coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll and is commemorated in numerous specific names.
Georg Adolf Otto Wüst was a German oceanographer. His pioneering work on the Atlantic Ocean provided a new view of the motions of water masses between the northern and southern hemispheres and the first evidence of the concentration of water mass spreading in western boundary currents.
George Karsten was a German botanist born in Rostock.
Comitas obliquicosta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
Ancillina sumatrana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.
Heinrich Hermann Robert Hartmeyer was a German zoologist.
Andreas Heinrich Karl Brandt was a German zoologist and marine biologist.
August Bernhard Brauer was a German zoologist.
Ernst Vanhöffen was a German zoologist.
Ilanga undata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.
Emarginula agulhasensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Erich Wagler was a German ichthyologist and malacologist.
Christian Gustav Wilhelm Müller was a German zoologist specializing in Ostracoda.
Otto Karl Ladislaus zur Strassen was a German zoologist. An advocate of Darwinism, his primary focus was concerned with biological morphology and developmental mechanics.
Ferdinand Carl Valentin Haecker was a German zoologist, reader at Freiburg University from 1892. In 1900, he became professor at the University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart and in 1909 at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He was president of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft from 1922. He died unexpectedly from a stroke.
Oswald Seeliger was a German zoologist, known for his studies involving the anatomy and developmental history of tunicates.
The Valdivia Expedition, or Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition, was a scientific expedition organised and funded by the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm II and was named after the ship which was bought and outfitted for the expedition, the SS Valdivia. It was led by the marine biologist Carl Chun and the expedition ran from 1898-1899 with the purpose of exploring the depths of the oceans below 500 fathoms, which had not been explored by the earlier Challenger Expedition.
