Gustav Budde-Lund
Gustav Budde-Lund | |
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Born | 11 January 1846 |
Died | 19 September 1911 | (aged 65)
Nationality | Danish |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Carcinology, Entomology |
Gustav Henrik Andreas Budde-Lund (11 January 1846 – 19 September 1911)[1] was a Danish invertebrate zoologist. In 1868, he co-founded the Entomologisk Forening, alongside , , and .[citation needed] He was a student of entomologist J. C. Schiødte, and became a leading authority on terrestrial isopods (woodlice, pill bugs and relatives), describing over 70 genera and around 500 species.[2] He married in 1875 and in 1885 produced his seminal work Crustacea Isopoda terrestria.[3] The woodlouse genus was named in Budde-Lund's honour by Filippo Silvestri in 1897.
References[]
- ^ Anden Udgave (1930). "Budde-Lund, Gustav Henrik Andreas". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). 26. p. 174.
- ^ Wolff, Torben (1993). "More than 200 years of crustacean research in Denmark". In Truesdale, Frank (ed.). History of Carcinology. CRC Press. pp. 212–213. ISBN 978-90-5410-137-6.
- ^ Niels Jensen. "G. Budde-Lund (1846-1911)". Danske Litteraturpriser. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
External links[]
- Budde-Lund, Gustav (1885). Crustacea Isopoda Terrestria per Familias et Genera et Species (in Latin). Copenhagen. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.109769. OCLC 1042907183 – via archive.org.
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- Danish zoologists
- Danish carcinologists
- 19th-century Copenhagen City Council members
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