Wilhem de Haan

Wilhem de Haan (7 February 1801, Amsterdam – 15 April 1855, Leiden) was a Dutch zoologist. He specialised in the study of insects and crustaceans, and was the first keeper of invertebrates at the Rijksmuseum in Leiden, now Naturalis. He was forced to retire in 1846, when he was partially paralysed by a spinal disease. He was responsible for the invertebrate volume of Siebold's Fauna Japonica, which was published in 1833, and introduced the western world for the first time to Japanese wildlife. He named a great many new taxa, and several taxa are named in his honour.

See also

• De Haan (disambiguation)

References

• W. Vrolik (1855). "Levensberigt van Wilhem de Haan" (in Dutch). Verslagen en Mededeelingen (Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen) 3: 399–408. http://books.google.com/books?id=hZQEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA399. 

External links

• Fauna Japonica online – de Haan's work begins on the 36^th page.

Persondata
Name	Haan, Wilhem de
Alternative names
Short description	Dutch zoologist
Date of birth	7 February 1801
Place of birth	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date of death	15 April 1855
Place of death	Leiden, Netherlands