Paul Theodor Range (1 May 1879 in Lübeck – 29 August 1952 in Lübeck) was a German geologist and naturalist.

He studied natural sciences at the universities of Würzburg and Leipzig, receiving his doctorate in 1903. From 1906 to 1914 he worked as a government geologist in German South-West Africa, and afterwards performed scientific studies in the Sinai Peninsula.^[1] From 1921 he gave lectures in geology at the University of Berlin, becoming an associate professor in 1934.^[2][3] In 1936, he was named president of the Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft.^[1]

Range is commemorated in the scientific name of the Namib sand gecko (Pachydactylus rangei), which was described as a species new to science by herpetologist Lars Gabriel Andersson in 1908.^[4]

Published works

• Das Diluvialgebiet von Lübeck und seine Dryastone : nebst einer vergleichenden Besprechung der Glazialpflanzen führenden Ablagerungen überhaupt, 1903 – The diluvial area of Lübeck and its dryastone.
• Geologische Übersichtskarte des deutschen Namalandes, 1912 – Geological overview map of German Namaqualand.
• Beiträge und Ergänzungen zur Landeskunde des deutschen Namalandes, 1914 – Contributions and supplements to the geography of German Namaqualand.
• Ergebnisse von bohrungen in Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika, 1915 – Results from drilling in German South-West Africa.
• Die flora der Isthmuswuste, 1921 – Flora of the isthmus desert.
• Die küstenebene Palästinas. Mit geologischer übersichtskarte im maszstab 1:250000, 1922 – The coastal plain of Palestine; with a geological outline map (scale: 1:250000).
• Begleitworte zur geologischen Karte der Isthmuswüste, 1922 – Accompaniments to the geological map of the isthmus desert.
• Die isthmuswüste und Palästina, 1926 – The isthmus desert and Palestine.^[5][6]