Carl Benjamin Klunzinger (18 November 1834, inGüglingen – 21 June 1914, inStuttgart) was a German physician andzoologist.
He studied medicine at the Universities ofTübingen andWürzburg, afterwards attending lectures ongeology andzoology inVienna andPrague. In 1862 he traveled toCairo, where he spent eighteen months learning Arabic. Beginning in February 1864 he worked as a physician atKosseir, a seaport on theRed Sea. Here he spent five years collecting a vast quantity of fish and other marine specimens.
From 1869 he examined his Red Sea collection at theStaatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, traveling toFrankfurt andBerlin in order to conduct zoological comparison studies. At Stuttgart he also investigated Australian fish species procured byFerdinand von Mueller (1825-1896), from whose collection Klunzinger described approximately fifty new species fromAustralia andNew Zealand. In 1872 he was back in Kosseir collecting additional marine specimens, later returning to Stuttgart (1875), where in 1884 he was appointed professor of zoology at theUniversity of Stuttgart.[1]
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