Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe

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Count Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe (born September 30, 1886 in Östersund , Sweden , † April 10, 1961 in Solna , Sweden) was a Swedish zoologist and ornithologist.

Live and act

Nils Gyldenstolpe came from a line of nobility that was founded in 1650 by Mikael Olai Wexionius Gyldenstolpe (1609-1670). He was the son of August Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe (1839-1919) and Hedvig Fredrika Alice Nieroth . Between 1906 and 1906 he undertook his first expedition to northern Swedish Lapland . In 1910 he accompanied Paul Rosenius (1865–1957) to Algeria . From 1911 to 1912 he worked in Siam , today's Thailand , and from 1914 to 1915 on the Malay Peninsula . In the meantime he studied at Uppsala University . In 1914 he became an employee of Einar Lönnberg at the vertebrate department at Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm, where he worked until the end of his life. In 1917 he married Sofia Margareta Emilie Heijkenskjöld in Stockholm. Between 1920 and 1921 he accompanied Prince Wilhelm of Sweden , a brother of King Gustav VI. Adolf of Sweden, to Central Africa . In 1924 he wrote his doctoral thesis at the University of Lund about the extensive bird collection that he gathered in Kenya and the Belgian Congo . In the 1930s he traveled to Indochina . In 1951 he undertook his last expedition - to New Guinea. Gyldenstolpe was very interested in the neotropical avifauna . So he sent professional bird collectors to South America to purchase the bird hides. He made an exact list of all taxa. In addition to his zoological activities, Gyldenstolpe was lord chamberlain to King Gustav V. This position allowed him to spend a few months of the year at the Swedish royal court and accompany the king on big game hunting.

Gyldenstolpe became an honorary member of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1944 and in 1950 he was on the organizing committee of the International Ornithological Congress in Uppsala .

Dedication names

In 1916 Einar Lönnberg named Gyldenstolpes Schlangenskink ( Isopachys gyldenstolpei ) in honor of Gyldenstolpe. Other taxa named after Gyldenstolpe are the frog species Limnonectes gyldenstolpei (1916 by Lars Gabriel Andersson ), the butterfly species Aethalopteryx gyldenstolpei (1925 by Christopher Aurivillius ) and the fishing horror species Hestiasula gyldenstolpei (1930 by Franz Werner ). In 2013 the bird species Campylorhamphus gyldenstolpei from the tree climber family was named after him. The Argentine mammalists Ulyses FJ Pardiñas , Guillermo D'Elía and Pablo Teta established the giant rice rat genus Gyldenstolpia in 2009 , which includes the two species Gyldenstolpia planaltensis and Gyldenstolpia fronto .

First descriptions by Gyldenstolpe

Mammals

Birds

literature

personal data
SURNAME Gyldenstolpe, Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gyldenstolpe, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish zoologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostersund , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1961
Place of death Solna , Sweden