Johan August Walberg ( Swede. Johan August Wahlberg ; October 9, 1810 - March 6, 1856) - Swedish natural scientist.
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| Place of Birth | Lagklarebekk near Gothenburg |
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| Place of death | Ngami Lake, Botswana |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " J.Wahlb. " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Wahlberg " . |
Biography
Valberg was born in 1810. When he was 9 years old, his father died, and after 2 years his mother. First, he took private lessons, and then entered a gymnasium in Linkoping . In 1829, he began studying chemistry at Uppsala University , and a year later he changed his specialization in forestry and agriculture. In 1832, he accompanied entomologist Karl Henrik Boheman on his trip to Norway. In 1833 and 1834 he traveled to Sweden and Germany, carrying out various forest research projects [4] .
Between 1838 and 1856, he traveled to South Africa and sent thousands of animals and plants to Sweden, including large mammals such as elephants, rhinos, giraffes, as well as thousands of bird species and more than 8000 species of insects. When exploring the upper course of Limpopo, Valberg was killed by a wounded elephant [4] .
Since the death message had not yet arrived in Sweden, he was elected in October 1856 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . Thus, Walberg became the only member of the Academy who was elected after his death.
Eponyms
Many species of animals and plants were discovered by Walberg and named after him, including the silver eagle ( Aquila wahlbergi ), Walberg's wing ( Epomophorus wahlbergi ) and Walberg's homopholis ( Homopholis wahlbergii ), as well as the African mantis Pseudocrabothra wahlbergii .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119415283 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science - 1902.
- ↑ LIBRIS - 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 Freiherr Gustav von Düben, Erinnerung an Johan August Wahlberg , in: Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Erdkunde, 2. Band, Verlag Dietrich Reimer, 1857, S. 329-368