Pierre Léonard Vander Linden

Pierre Léonard Vander Linden ( December 12, 1797 - April 5, 1831 ) was a Belgian entomologist .

He received a scholarship in October 1817 and was able to study botany in Italy under Antonio Bertoloni (1775–1869) and zoology with Camillo Ranzani (1775–1841). He received his doctorate in medicine on April 17, 1821 in Bolonga and went to Paris via Sicily for a short time. In 1822 he returned to Belgium and received his Ph.D. on July 15, 1823. of the University of Leuven. He then became the first professor of zoology in Belgium.

Vander Linden was a professor of zoology and specialized in the study of hymenoptera . His main work is Observations sur les hymenoptères d'Europe de la famille des fouisseurs , the first part of which he published in 1827 under the title Scoliètes, sapygites, pompiliens et sphégides . He published the second part in 1829 under the title Bembecides, labrates, nyssoniens et crabronites .

Works

• Observations on the Hymenoptères d'Europe de la famille des Fouisseurs. 1: Scoliètes, Sapygites, Pompiliens et Sphégides digitized
• Notice sur un squelette de baleinoptère, digitized
• Compte rendu des travaux de la société des sciences médicales et naturelles digitized
• Essai sur les insectes de Java et des îles voisines, digitized
• Monographiae libellulinarum europaearum specimen, digitized

literature

• Medical writer's lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists, and naturalists of all educated peoples: Addendum: Contains corrections, additions, the newer literature, and the medical writers who have died since 1830. 1838-45, p.68
• Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden bevattende levensbeschrijvingen van zoodanige people who raise zich op eenigerlei wijze in ons vaderland vermaard according to AJ van der Aa :, Volume 8, S.148f