Erik Norman Kjellesvig-Waering

Erik Norman Kjellesvig-Waering (born February 9, 1912 in Havana , Cuba , † July 16, 1979 in Marco Island , Florida , United States ) was an American arachnologist and paleontologist .

Life

Erik N. Kjellesvig-Waering was born on February 9, 1912 in Havana, Cuba . His father was a Norwegian civil engineer, which is why he received Norwegian citizenship , and his mother was a native Cuban. At the request of his mother, he and his 5 siblings were educated in the United States : He attended an elementary school in New Jersey and then moved to a military academy in North Carolina . At age 21, he became a citizen of the United States.

At the request of his father, he began to study geology at North Carolina State University , which he completed with a Bachelor of Science degree. During his studies he worked in the university library, where he came across the subject of palaeontology during research for his geology studies , which immediately fascinated him. He used his free time and vacation to study palaeontology, with particular attention to sea ​​scorpions (Eurypterida) and living and fossil scorpions (Scorpiones).

After graduating, he worked for mineral oil companies such as Shell Oil Company and Amoco International Oil Company , which sent him mainly to other South American countries. During this time he collected many turtles , snakes , shellfish and corals for the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago , of which he was a member. He himself owned a large collection of scorpions, beetles and sea scorpions, which he donated to the Florida State Collection of Arthropods.

literature

• Erik N. Kjellesvig-Waering: A Restudy of the Fossil Scorpionida of the World . In: Palaeontographica Americana . No. 55, 1986, p. [3].

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