Education
He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna, chiefly on molluscs and crustaceans.
biologist university professor Zoologist
He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna, chiefly on molluscs and crustaceans.
He was also the editor of a new edition of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus" Lehrbuch der Zoologie, and the coiner of the terms protostome and deuterostome. Taxa named by Grobben include:
Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892
Sagittidae Claus & Grobben, 1905
Sagittoidea Claus & Grobben, 1905
Protostomia Grobben, 1908
Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
Taxa named in Grobben"s honour include:
Gerbillus grobbeni Klaptocz, 1909
Sphaerophthalmus grobbeni Spandl, 1923
Limnadia grobbeni Daday, 1925
Actinia grobbeni Watzl, 1922
Paladilhiopsis grobbeni Kuscer, 1928
Raillietina grobbeni Böhm, 1925
Trypanophis grobbeni (Poche, 1904).
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.