Per Brinck
Per Simon Valdemar Brinck (4 September 1919 – 6 October 2013) was a Swedish zoologist.
He began his career as a veterinarian, but wrote a thesis on Plecoptera and later became a worldwide authority on Gyrinidae. He travelled extensively to Africa and Southeast Asia, among others co-publishing the fifteen-volume South African Animal Life between 1955 and 1973. He served as a professor of zoology at the Lund University from 1958 to 1986.[1][2] Brinck edited the journal Oikos from 1965 to 1989, and since 2007 the journal has given out the .
Brinck was a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1974[2] and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He also was a Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society.[3]
The genera Perbrinckia and have been named after him.
References[]
- ^ Enckell, Pehr H.; Gustafson, Torbjörn (26 October 2013). "Per Brinck". Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ^ a b Moffett, Rodney (2014). A Biographical Dictionary of Contributors to the Natural History of the Free State and Lesotho. Bloemfontein: Sun Press. pp. 49–50. ISBN 9781920382346. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-06-12. Retrieved 2018-07-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- 1919 births
- 2013 deaths
- Swedish veterinarians
- Male veterinarians
- Swedish zoologists
- Swedish entomologists
- Lund University faculty
- Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Oikos (journal) editors
- Norwegian academic biography stubs