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Place of Birth: Helsingborgs Maria parish, Skåne County, Sweden
About 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.
- Brinck edited the journal Oikos from 1965 to 1989, and since 2007 the journal has given out the Per Brinck Oikos Award. Brinck was a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1974 and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
- He also was a Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society.The genera Perbrinckia and Perbrinckiella have been named after him.
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