Gustav Budde-Lund, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gustav Budde-Lund

Danish zoologist

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1846

Date of Death: 19-Sep-1911

Profession: merchant, zoologist, entomologist, malacologist, carcinologist

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Gustav Budde-Lund

  • Gustav Henrik Andreas Budde-Lund (11 January 1846 – 19 September 1911) was a Danish invertebrate zoologist.
  • In 1868, he co-founded the Entomologisk Forening, alongside Rasmus William Traugott Schlick, Carl August Møller, Andreas Haas and Ivar Frederik Christian Ammitzbøll.
  • 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.
  • He married in 1875 and in 1885 produced his seminal work Crustacea Isopoda terrestria.
  • The woodlouse genus Buddelundiella was named in Budde-Lund's honour by Filippo Silvestri in 1897.

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