Career
After his medical profession in Amoy in the Chinese Empire Carl Constantin Platen worked as a zoological collector. A further part was sold to the natural history dealer Wilhelm Schlüter in Saale. Platen was nearly blind and deaf, when he returned to Germany in 1894 where he lived in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania until his death in 1899.
Bird taxa named in Platen"s honour include Aramidopsis plateni, Gallicolumba platenae, Sterrhoptilus plateni, Prioniturus platenae, Ficedula platenae and Thapsinillas longirostris platenae.
Butterflies named for him are Euploea platenae, Amathuxidia plateni, Amblypodia plateni, Charaxes platenae, Chionaema plateni, Choaspes plateni, Danaus plateni, Prothoe plateni and Troides plateni.