Heinrich Boie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German zoologist
Date of Birth: 04-May-1794
Place of Birth: Meldorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Date of Death: 04-Sep-1827
Profession: zoologist, ornithologist, herpetologist
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Heinrich Boie
- Heinrich Boie (May 4, 1794, Meldorf, Holstein – September 4, 1827, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia) was a German zoologist.
- He was the brother of Friedrich Boie.
- In the field of herpetology they described 49 new species of reptiles and several new species of amphibians.Heinrich Boie studied law at Kiel and Göttingen.
- At university he became interested in natural history through the lectures of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Friedrich Tiedemann.
- He was appointed Coenraad Jacob Temminck's assistant at Leiden.
- In 1825 he travelled to Java with Salomon Müller in order to collect specimens for the museum.
- He died there of gall fever. A species of Indian gecko, Cnemaspis boiei, is named in honor of Heinrich Boie or his brother Friedrich Boie.
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