Adam Giede Böving
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| Adam Giede Böving | |
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| Born | 1869 Denmark |
| Died | 1957 USA |
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| Institutions | Zoological Museum, Smithsonian Institution |
Adam Giede Böving (1869–1957) is a Danish entomologist.
Biography[edit]
Adam Böving was born in Denmark, in 1869. From 1902 to 1903 he worked as assistant curator of entomology in the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. He became a member of the Bureau of Entomology in 1913, a division of United States Department of Agriculture. By working there he became a specialist in the larvae of Coleoptera. From 1939 he was a research associate of the Smithsonian Institution, and retired from USDA in 1945. He wrote and illustrated a lot of books, describing early stages of Coleoptera.[1]
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- ^ "Biography". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
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