August Holmgren

Swedish scientist
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IntroSwedish scientist
PlacesSweden
wasZoologist Entomologist Scientist
Work fieldBiology Science
Gender
Male
Birth1 January 1829
Death1 January 1888 (aged 59 years)
The details

Biography

August Emil Algot Holmgren (10 November 1829 – 30 December 1888) was a Swedish entomologist mainly interested in the Hymenoptera, especially Ichneumonidae.

He was professor in the Forstakademie in Stockholm

Holmgren was the author of:

  • Hymenoptera, species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies resa omkring Jordeni under befäl af C.A. Virgen Aren 1851-53. II Zoologi 1 Insecta pp. 391-442 pl. viii. (1868).
  • Bidrag till kännedomen om Beeren eilands och Spetsbegrens insekt-fauna. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & söner (1869).
  • Skandinaviens foglar (Birds of Sweden) in Handbok i zoologi för landtbrukare, skogshushållare, fiskeriidkare och jägare P.A. Norstedt & söner, Stockholm (1866).



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