Eduard Wilhelm Steinheil (1830 – 11 October 1879) (also known as Edoardo Steinheil) was a German entomologist and engineer.
Life He was born in 1830 at Munich, Bavaria, Germany, to Carl August von Steinheil and Margarethe Amalie née Steinheil.
He worked for , an optical-astronomical company founded in 1854 by his father.
He made multiple trips to Colombia to research beetles there. Some aspects of his itinery, activities and specimens are detailed by Bourgeois (1879)Bourgeois, J. 1879. Contribution à la faune entomologique des États-Unis de Colombie: Catalogue des Lycides recueillis par M. Ed. Steinheil (1872–1873), avec les diagnoses des espèces nouvelles. Annales de la Société entomologique de France [Ser. 5e] 9: 13–42.
He died on 11 October 1879 in Colombia due to sunstroke.
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