Carl Stål

Carl Stål (* March 21, 1833 at Castle Karlberg, Stockholm, † June 13, 1878 in Frösundavik in Stockholm ), sometimes spelled Karl Stål, was a Swedish entomologist.

Life and work

In 1853 he matriculated at Uppsala University, where he graduated in 1857 in medicine and philosophy successfully completed. Due to his poor health, he devoted himself to the Entomology and received his doctorate in 1859 at the University of Jena. In the same year he became an assistant of Carl Henrik Boheman in the zoological department of the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm, where he was appointed in 1867 to the curator and received the title of professor. In the following years, he traveled to Sweden and throughout Europe and studied the collection of Johann Christian Fabricius in Kiel. In 1869 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Stals research focused on the Hemiptera ( Hemiptera ) and grasshoppers (Orthoptera ), which he described numerous taxa in the journal Nova Acta Societatis Scientiarum regiae Upsaliensis and in foreign entomological journals. Other works are published by Stål Hemiptera Fabriciana ( 1868-69 ), Enumeratio Hemipterorum (5 volumes, 1870-76 ) and Observations orthoptérologiques ( 1875-78 ).