Knud Christian Andersen

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Knud Christian Andersen (born April 29, 1867 in Frederiksberg , † June 1918 in England ) was a Danish zoologist. His main research interests were bats .

Live and act

At the end of the 19th century, Andersen initially worked as an ornithologist and conducted field studies in the Faroe Islands , among other things . In 1901, Prince Ferdinand I of Bulgaria gave him a job at the Zoological Museum in Sofia. However, he gave it up again out of frustration with the working conditions. In 1904 he was employed by the British Museum . For 14 years he did research in the Pacific , Southeast Asia and Queensland and conducted studies on bats. He was particularly interested in the families of the fruit bats and the horseshoe bat , of which he described 15 new species. He wrote 13 scientific papers on the Southeast Asian horseshoe bat . Best known was his Catalog of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum , published in 1912 , which is one of the most extensive standard works on the fruit bats. In 1918 Andersen went missing in a mysterious way, his body was never found.

In 1909 Andersen was elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (FZS).

Dedication names

Rhinolophus anderseni (1909 by Ángel Cabrera , no longer a valid taxon, the two subspecies anderseni and aequalis are now considered synonyms of the species Rhinolophus arcuatus and Rhinolophus acuminatus ), Dobsonia anderseni (1914 by Oldfield Thomas ), Artibeus anderseni (1916 by Wilfred Hudson Osgood )

Works (selection)

  • Meddelelser om faeroernes Fugle med saerligt Hensyn til Nolsø, efter scribbled Oplysninger (with PF Petersen), 1894
  • Diomedea melanophrys, boende paa Færøerne , 1894 (English: Diomedea melanophrys in the Faröe Islands , 1895)
  • Sysselmand HC Müller's haandskrevne optegnelser om Færøoerne Fugle (with Hans Christopher Müller ), 1901
  • Catalog of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum , 1912
  • On the determination of age in bats , 1917

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals JHU Press, 2009, ISBN 9780801893049 : p. 11

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jon Fjeldså : Danske ornitologist reached from hjemmet: from PW Lund til international fuglebeskyttelse In: 100-års festskrift Dansk Orn. Forums. Tidsskr. 100 (2006): p. 265-275
personal data
SURNAME Andersen, Knud Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andersen, Knud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Frederiksberg
DATE OF DEATH June 1918
Place of death England