- Embrik Strand
Embrik Strand (1876
Ål – 1947Riga ) was anarachnologist who classified manyinsect andspider species, including thegreenbottle blue tarantula .He studied at the University of Kristiania (now
University of Oslo ). Around 1900 he focused on collecting insect specimens fromNorway . These are now deposited at the university's museum, where he worked as a curator from 1901 to 1903.After studying at the
University of Oslo Strand traveled in Norway from 1898 to 1903 collecting a great number ofinsect s. For part of this time (1901-1903) he was aconservator in the museum of zoology of the university.He then left forGermany where he continued his studies of zoology at theUniversity of Marburg (1903), then he worked withStaatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart [http://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/] (1905) and, later, that ofTübingen and then withSenckenberg Museum inFrankfurt . From 1907, he worked with Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 1923, he accepted the post of professor of zoology at theUniversity of Riga and where he directed the Institute of zoology and hydrobiology.Strand was the author of many publications, mainly on insects and
spiders and was the descriptor of several hundred newspecies . He edited, 1910 to 1929, the review "Archiv für Naturgeschichte" and was the founder, in 1928, of "Folia zoologica and hydrobiologica".Pierre Bonnet (naturalist) indicates, in his " Bibliographia araneorum" (pages 150-153), that a record number of new taxa were dedicated to Strand. Strand himself was the editor of a book in three volumes listing these, to celebrate his jubilee. There are indeed several hundreds of species which bear his name in all the possible forms: " Strandi, Strandella, Embriki, Embrikiellus, Embrik-Strandella, " etc. In the same way, Bonnet reproached Strand renaming already described species, but of which he, Strand, considered the name incorrect: Strand draws up a list of these, in 1926, where he renames nearly 1, 700 taxa of spiders.He was a prolific author, the list of his publications which he published in 1918 (after only twenty years of activity) is 1, 200 titles.
Strand's collection of insects and spiders from Norway is in the Zoological Museum of the University of Oslo [http://www.toyen.uio.no/toyensider/engelsk.html] . His types are in the
German Entomological Institute and theMuseum für Naturkunde .Sources
*Natvig, L. R. 1943 [Strand, E.] "Norsk ent. Tidsskr". 7(1/2) 58-61, Portr. + Schr.verz.
*Pfaff, G. & Wrede, O. H. 1934 [Strand, E.] "Festschrift, 50jähriges Bestehen I.E.V." 11, Portrait.
*Bonnet, P. 1945)" Bibliographia araneorum"the brothers Doularoude (Toulouse): 62.External links
* [http://www.nhm.uio.no/entomology/strand_e_e.htm University of Oslo]
* [http://www.zalf.de/home_zalf/institute/dei/php/biograph/biograph.php DEI ZALF] Portrait
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