Carl Bolle

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Carl Bolle
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Carl Bolle
Born21 November 1821
Berlin, Germany
Died17 February 1909(1909-02-17) (aged 87)
Germany
NationalityGerman
Citizenship Germany
Scientific career
Fields
  • Natural History
Not to be confused with Karl Bolle (1893—1955), a German World War I fighter ace.

Carl August Bolle (21 November 1821, Schöneberg (Berlin) – 17 February 1909) was a German naturalist and collector.

Bolle was born at Berlin into a wealthy brewing family. He studied medicine and natural science at Berlin and Bonn. He visited the Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands in 1852 and 1856, and wrote Mein zweiter Beitrag zur Vogelkunde der Canarischen Inseln in 1857.[1]

Bolle was a founder member of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (German Ornithological Society) in 1867, succeeding Alfred Brehm as Chairman in 1884.

The Bolle's laurel pigeon (Columba bollii) of the Canary Islands was named after him by Frederick DuCane Godman.

He also made contributions as a botanist, especially in the field of dendrology.[2] His herbarium was bequeathed to the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, although largely destroyed during World War II (1943).[3] The plant genus Bollea (family Orchidaceae) was named in his honor, but is now called Pescatoria.[4]

The standard author abbreviation Bolle is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ German Research Foundation (DFG) Mein zweiter Beitrag zur Vogelkunde der canarischen Inseln
  2. ^ Fakultät für Biologie und PsychologieAlbrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften Department of Systematic Botany
  3. ^ JSTOR Global Plants (biography)
  4. ^ CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms by Umberto Quattrocchi
  5. ^ IPNI.  Bolle.
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