Victor van Straelen
Victor van Straelen (14 June 1889 – 29 February 1964) was a Belgian conservationist, palaeontologist and carcinologist.
Van Straelen was born in Antwerp on 14 June 1889, and worked chiefly as a palaeontologist until his retirement in 1954.[1]
He was director of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences from 1925 to 1954.[2] In 1926, he instigated the world's first gorilla sanctuary in what became the Parc National Albert (now Virunga National Park).[3] In 1933, he was appointed head of the , and in 1948, he was on the executive committee at the foundation of the organisation which would become the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).[3] He was the first president of the Charles Darwin Foundation from its foundation in 1959 until his death in 1964.[3]
He was awarded a silver Darwin-Wallace Medal by the Linnean Society of London in 1958.[4]
References[]
- ^ L. Harrison Matthews (1955). "Victor Van Straelen". Nature. 176 (4479): 413–414. Bibcode:1955Natur.176..413M. doi:10.1038/176413a0. S2CID 11777357.
- ^ Hans G. Hansson. "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Göteborgs Universitet. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c J.-P. Harroy (1964). "Victor Van Straelen: An International Conservationist". Oryx. 7 (5): 212. doi:10.1017/S0030605300003057.
- ^ "Recipients of the Darwin‐Wallace Medal" (PDF). Linnean Society of London. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
Further reading[]
- Edward Hindle (1964). "Prof. Victor van Straelen: Obituaries". Nature. 202 (4937): 1058–1059. doi:10.1038/2021058b0.
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