Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg
Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (born June 27, 1852 in Buenos Aires , † November 4, 1937 ) was an Argentine biologist, doctor, explorer and writer. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " E. Holmb. "
He was the grandson of Eduard Ladislas Kaunitz , Baron von Holmberg (1778–1853), an Austrian officer who fought in the Argentine War of Independence, and the son of Eduardo Wenceslao Holmberg (1815–1875), who was also in the Argentine military and also a botanist. Holmberg studied medicine in Buenos Aires, graduating in 1880, but never practiced as a doctor. He was interested in botany and entomology and studied the fauna and flora there while traveling in Argentina. Initially, one focus of his research was on spiders. He already traveled to Patagonia in the early 1870s and also accompanied the desert campaign . Holmberg worked with Florentino Ameghino .
In 1888 he became director of the zoo in Buenos Aires.
He was also a writer and was one of the first to publish science fiction in South America .
Fonts
- Viajes por la Patagonia, 1872
- Resultados científicos, especialmente zoológicos y botánicos de los tres viajes llevados a cabo en 1881, 1882 y 1883 a la sierra de Tandil
- Viaje a Misiones, Buenos Aires 1887
- El joven coleccionista de historia natural en la argentinia, Buenos Aires 1905
- Excursiones bonaerenses. Col. Viajeros olvidados. Editorial Albatross. Buenos Aires 2008
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holmberg, Viaje maravilloso del señor Nic-Nac , 1875, and Horacio Kalibang o los autómatas 1879
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holmberg, Eduardo Ladislao |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine biologist and explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1937 |