Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude

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Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude

Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude (* 1858 in Amsterdam ; † November 8, 1924 in London ) was a British malacologist of Dutch origin.

Life

Gude's parents were Huguenots . When he was 14 years old, the family emigrated to America. At the age of 17, Gude returned to Europe, where he initially studied for two years in Germany and then lived in France, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Gude mastered the languages ​​Dutch, English, Italian and Spanish. Soon after 1880 Gude went to England, where he temporarily worked as a foreign correspondent in a large nursery in north London. He stayed there until 1907 before he worked for three years as the private secretary of gardener Harry James Veitch in Chelsea . Subsequently, apart from the time of the First World War, where he worked in the censorship authority, he was largely occupied with studying the fossil and recent mollusc collections of the Natural History Museum in London.

In 1908 he became a British citizen, and in the same year he married Laura Andrew.

In the first years that Gude spent in England, he was primarily interested in botany . He set up a large herbarium , but he soon parted with it. Some time before 1890 he turned to land snails and, at the suggestion of a friend, specialized in the family of snails (Helicidae). After the death of the conchologist John Henry Ponsonby-Fane (1848-1916), Gude was considered a leading expert in this group. In 1890 he joined the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and in 1901 he was elected to the committee . From February 1909 to June 1918 he was secretary and from February 1919 to February 1922 he was president of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

In 1894 Gude was elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (FZS).

Gude placed the terrestrial snails genres among others Liardetia , Dianella , Plegma , Kalidos , Nitor , diastole , Monachoides , Enteroplax , Zophos , Keraea , Thapsiella , Psichion , Zenobiella , Nodopomatias , Sinicola , Elaphroconcha , Advena , Hawaiia and Argardhia on.

Dedication names

The genera Gudeella , Gudeoconcha and Gudeodiscus are named after Gude .

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personal data
SURNAME Gude, Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British malacologist of Dutch origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1924
Place of death London