Karl Grobben

Karl Grobben (27 August 1854, in Brno – 13 April 1945, in Salzburg) was an Austrian biologist. 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.

Taxonomy
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)