Herman Diedrich Spöring Sr. (or Spoering) (1701–1747) was a professor of medicine at the Royal Academy of Turku in Turku, Finland, and an amateur naturalist. One of his students was the Finnish scientist and priest Pehr Kalm.[1] Spöring was one of the earliest scientists to propose, in 1747 shortly before his death, of the link between fish and tapeworms.[2]
His son Herman Diedrich Spöring Jr. (1733–1771), a Finnish explorer and botanist, was one of the scientific personnel who accompanied James Cook on the 1768-71 HM Bark Endeavour expedition to the Pacific.