William Lundbeck
William Lundbeck (born October 16, 1863 in Aalborg , † May 16, 1941 in Kongens Lyngby ) was a Danish entomologist who specialized in two-winged animals (Diptera) . From 1910 to 1933 he was head of the arthropod department at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen .
In 1889/90 he took part as a zoologist in a Greenland expedition in which Nikolaj Hartz was a botanist. In 1895 he published the list of fauna from this expedition and the East Greenland expedition on the Hekla (1891/92), during which the expedition doctor Henrik Deichmann (1871-1939) collected insects. The results of further expeditions led to the insect and spider list by Lundbeck and Kai Ludvig Henriksen (1888-1940), which they published in 1917 in Conspectus Faunae Groenlandicae (437 insect species, 124 spider species). This was revised by Henriksen in 1939 (with 592 insect species).
He was also a marine biologist and wrote a treatise on pebble sponges in the North Atlantic. His main work is a monograph on the Diptera of Denmark.
His collection of dipteras is in the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen.
Fonts
- Diptera Danica, genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark, Copenhagen, 7 volumes, 1907 to 1927, Biodiversity Heritage Library (in English)
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ Jens Böcher, Niels Kristensen: The Greenland Entomofauna , Brill 2015, p. 39. ISBN 978-90-04-25640-8
- ^ Diptera Collection, Copenhagen Zoological Museum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lundbeck, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aalborg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1941 |
| Place of death | Kongens Lyngby |