Carl Henrik Boheman

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Carl Henrik (Heinrich) Boheman (ca.1850)

Carl Henrik Boheman (born July 10, 1796 in Jönköping , † November 2, 1868 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish entomologist .

Life

Boheman was the son of the country secretary Johan Henrik Boheman and his wife Anna Brita (nee Munthe). The mystic and royal Swedish court secretary Carl Adolf Boheman (1764–1831) was his uncle.

Boheman enrolled at Lund University in 1812 , where he studied law. A year later he chose a military career and took part in a campaign against Norway in 1814. In 1837 he was promoted to captain. Boheman also used the time available for scientific excursions, on which he was soon accompanied by younger researchers. He was particularly interested in beetles ( Coleoptera ), for which he provided numerous first descriptions recognized as such (e.g. for the pit wood beetle or the field bean beetle ). Over the course of 30 years, he put together a comprehensive collection of insects , which he later integrated into the collection of the Natural History Museum . His scientific reputation was now so developed that from 1837 he was assigned managerial tasks in the Natural History Museum. In 1838 the Swedish Academy of Sciences selected him as one of its members and in 1841 it appointed him professor. Apparently, he also enjoyed a great reputation among colleagues. The dedication with which the entomologist and university professor Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt dedicated a volume of his Diptera Scandinaviae disposita et descripta to him in 1850 also shows that the honored man was also a knight of the Royal Swedish Order of the North Star ( Regii Ordinis de Stella Polari Eques ). The genus Bohemannia from the family of the dwarf leaf miners ( Nepticulidae ) was named after Boheman .

Boheman was married to Amalia Petronella (nee Åberg, 1807–1873) since September 29, 1825, with whom he had several children. The Swedish diplomat Erik Boheman (1895–1979) was his grandson.

Fonts (selection)

For the Natural History Museum he wrote Årsberättelser om framstegen i insecternas, myriapodernas och arachnidernas naturalhistoria for 1840–56 (annual reports on the advances in the natural history of insects, millipedes and spiders for 1840–56). His numerous other works included Nya svenska homoptera beskrifna (Description of new Swedish Schnabelkerfe, 1847), Insecta Caffrariae (where he described the African insects collected by Johan August Wahlberg (1810-1856) in 1838–45 ), and Bidrag till Gottland's insect fauna (contribution on Gotland's insect fauna, 1850), Monographia cassididarum I – IV (1850–62), Entomologiska anteckningar under en resa i södra Sverige 1851 (Entomological Notes under a Journey in Southern Sweden, 1852) and Catalog of Coleopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IX. Cassididæ (1856).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Forsstrand: Carl Henrik Boheman. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon Volume 5: Blom – Brannius. Bonnier, Stockholm 1925, p. 167 ( sok.riksarkivet.se )
  2. ↑ See e.g. B. Leipzig Literature Newspaper. No. 191 of August 4, 1832, col. 1524, in which there is a report of a caravan ... along the Dovre mountain range in Norway under the direction of Capitain Bohemann from the Smaland Regiment ( online at Google Books).
  3. ^ Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt: Diptera Scandinaviae disposita et descripta. Vol. 9. Officina Lundbergiana, Lund 1850 ( online at Biodiversity Heritage Library).
  4. ↑ Boheman, Erik. In: Who's Who in the United Nations. Edited by Christian E. Burckel. Christian E. Burckel & Associates, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York 1951, p. 57 ( online at HathiTrust ).
  5. ↑ Carolus H. Boheman: Insecta Caffrariae annis 1838-1845 a JA Walberg collecta. Officina Norstedtiana, vol. 1. Stockholm 1848 ( online at HathiTrust) and vol. 2. Stockholm 1857 ( online at HathiTrust).
personal data
SURNAME Boheman, Carl Henrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohemann, Carl Heinrich; Bohemann, Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Jonkoping
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1868
Place of death Stockholm