New Zealand's endemic Hochstetter's frog, Leiopelma hochstetteri, is named after Ferdinand.
In 1526 Sir Richard Gresham, when detained at Neuport, sent a letter with Joachim Höchstetter to Cardinal Wolsey, characterising Höchstetter as one of the richest and most influential merchants of Germany and a great exporter of wheat to London.
In December 2004, eleven endangered Hochstetter's frogs were found living on Maungatautari in a rocky region.
Ferdinand von Hochstetter | Hochstetter's frog | Hochstetter's one-handed piano pieces inscribed to his cousin, Lisy Fischer | Hochstetter |
There he studied chemistry under Professor Hermann von Fehling and learned the plant world of the tropics in the greenhouses of the imperial court garden where his childhood friend, Wilhelm Hochstetter, was an apprentice.
The Welser were members of the mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers and venture capitalists on a par with the Fugger and the Hochstetter.