Friedrich Boie

Friedrich Boie (4 June 1789 – 3 March 1870) was a German entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and lawyer. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel. Friedrich Boie was the brother of Heinrich Boie.

In 1860, Friedrich Boie was elected a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Friedrich Boie wrote important books about animals, such as Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien (Isis von Oken 1827) and Auszüge aus dem System der Ornithologie (Isis von Oken 1844).

Friedrich Boie helped discover many new types of birds and reptiles. He described new groups of birds including the hummingbird genus Glaucis, the swallow genus Progne, and the cuckooshrike genus Pericrocotus. He and his brother also described about 50 new species of reptiles.

A type of Indian gecko, Cnemaspis boiei, was named to honor Friedrich Boie or his brother Heinrich Boie.