Gustaf von Paykull

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Gustaf von Paykull

Gustav von Paykull (21 August 1757 – 28 January 1826) was a Swedish friherre (circa baron) and hovmarskalk ('court marshall', a court office), ornithologist and entomologist.

He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy from 1791 and a founder of the natural history museum (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet) in Stockholm, through his 1819 donation of his extensive zoological collections to the academy (now in the Swedish Museum of Natural History). He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1804.[1]

His best-known publications are:

  • Monographia Histeroidum. Upsaliae : Palmblad iv 114 pp. (1811).
  • Fauna Suecica. Insecta, Coleoptera. Upsala : Edman 3 volumes. (3 volumes,1798,1799,1800)

References

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