Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius

Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius ( born January 15, 1853 at the church game Forsa in Hälsingland, † July 20, 1928 in Mörby ) was a Swedish entomologist.

Life and work

Aurivillus was born the son of a Propsts. He attended high school in Härnösand and then studied at the University of Uppsala, where he in 1880 the doctoral degree Ph. D. received. Then he got a job in the entomological department of the Natural History Museum in Stockholm ( Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet ), where he was professor in 1893. In the same year he was elected to the Academy of Agriculture and shortly afterwards in the Royal Academy of Sciences, of which he was secretary from 1901 to 1923.

Aurivillius gained through regional notoriety because of his research into butterflies, Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. He has written works on Swedish and African butterflies, and wrote an essay on Carl Linnaeus importance for entomology. He also translated works by Alfred Brehm into Swedish. He was in the 1890s initiator of State Entomological Institute and participated in the multi-volume Svensk insect fauna ( Swedish insect fauna ). Aurivillius also had significance as a teacher and was a member of the People's School Board of Stockholm.

He was married to Agnes Daniel yolk and had with her ​​son Magnus, who succeeded his father in the footprint. Even Christopher's brother, Carl, was viewed as a naturalist.

Swell

• Svenska men och Kvinnor Del 1, Albert Bonnier förlag, Stockholm (1942 )
• Svenskt biografiskt lexicon, the second volume, Albert Bonnier förlag, Stockholm (1920 )

• Entomologist
• Lepidopterist
• Swede
• Born in 1853
• Died in 1928
• Man
• Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Person (Stockholm)