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)