{{Infobox scientist |name = Ferdinand Victor Alphons Prosch |birth_date = {{birth date|1820|11|25}} |birth_place = Copenhagen |death_date = {{death date and age|1885|7|12|1820|11|25}} |death_place = Copenhagen |residence = |citizenship = Danish |ethnicity = |field = Doctor, Veterinarian, zoologist |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = Prosch |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }}
'''Ferdinand Victor Alphons Prosch''' (November 25, 1820 in Copenhagen – July 29, 1885) was a Danish medical doctor, veterinarian and biologist.<ref name = gravsted>{{cite web | url = http://www.gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=fvaprosch | title = F V A Prosch | accessdate = 26 November 2016 | publisher = gravsted.dk}}</ref>
Prosch's father, Johannes Henrik William Prosch (died 1843) was a secretary in the Danish War Chancery and his mother, Caroline Sophie (née Brement) was French. In 1837 Prosch was a student at the Metropolitan School in Copenhagen and by 1843 he had taken his medical exams. Between 1843 and 1846 Prosch was employed by the university as a prosector, i.e. a preparer of specimens for dissection in the university's Zoological museum.<ref name = gravsted/>
In 1847 he joined the ''Flaaden'' as the ship's doctor on a voyage to Madeira. Guinea, Venezuela and the Caribbean. In 1848 he was the ship's doctor on the frigate ''Havfrue'' ("Mermaid") in the First Schleswig War. After the war practiced as a doctor in Copenhagen and was a teacher of natural history, in which capacity he published the book "Lærer i Naturhistorie, i hvilken Egenskabin" 1851, which at the time was widely used as a school textbook. He dealt equally diligently with the study of natural history, comparative anatomy and physiology. His scientific reputation was such that in 1852 he gained a teaching post in hygiene studies at Veterinary and Agricultural University, where in 1858 he was appointed associate professor of Dietetics and Animal Husbandry, being promoted to professor a year later. he made several journeys abroad to study German and English breeds of farm animals and he was to have a significant impact on Danish agriculture in the late 19th century. He was the author and co-author of many text books, articles and papers on animal health and wellbeing. He was a Knight of the Danneborg, a Danish honour similar to the Order of the British Empire.<ref name = gravsted/>
==Some Taxa named by Prosch== *''Bathypolypus arcticus'' (Prosch 1847) *Cranchiidae (Prosch 1847) *''Teuthowenia megalops'' (Prosch 1849)
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