Per Brinck

Per Simon Valdemar Brinck (4 September 1919 – 6 October 2013) was a Swedish zoologist.

He began his career as a veterinarian, but wrote a thesis on Plecoptera and later became a worldwide authority on Gyrinidae. He travelled extensively to Africa and Southeast Asia, among others co-publishing the fifteen-volume South African Animal Life between 1955 and 1973. He served as a professor of zoology at the Lund University from 1958 to 1986.[1][2] Brinck edited the journal Oikos from 1965 to 1989, and since 2007 the journal gives out the Per Brinck Oikos Award.

Brinck was a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1974[2] and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The geni Perbrinckia and Perbrinckiella have been named after him.

References

  1. ↑ Enckell, Pehr H.; Gustafson, Torbjörn (26 October 2013). "Per Brinck". Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 Moffett, Rodney (2014). A Biographical Dictionary of Contributors to the Natural History of the Free State and Lesotho. Bloemfontein: Sun Press. pp. 49–50. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
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