Pierre Léonard Vander Linden
Belgian entomologist
About Pierre Léonard Vander Linden
Lived 1797 – 1831 (aged 33). Pierre Léonard Vander Linden was a Belgian entomologist, university teacher, physician, zoologist and naturalist.
Pierre Léonard Vander Linden (12 December 1797 – 5 April 1831) was a Belgian entomologist born in Brussels. In Italy, he studied under the botanist Antonio Bertoloni (1775–1869), the zoologist Camillo Ranzani (1775–1841) and the physician Giacomo Tommasini (1768–1846). During his studies, he worked on Odonata. In 1826 he was appointed as the first professor of zoology, at the Musée des Sciences et Lettres in Brussels.
Works Monographiae Libellulinarum Europearum specimen (Vander Linden 1825) P.L. Vander Linden (1829) Essai sur les insects de Java et des îles voisines. Nouveaux mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, Volume 5, page 1-28
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Belgian entomologist (1797-1831)
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Pierre Léonard Vander Linden was born on 12 December 1797.
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Pierre Léonard Vander Linden died on 5 April 1831.
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Pierre Léonard Vander Linden was an entomologist, university teacher, physician, zoologist and naturalist.
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Pierre Léonard Vander Linden was Belgian.
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