Carl Reinhold Sahlberg
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Carl Reinhold Sahlberg (1779-1860) was a Finnish naturalist, primarily an entomologist with beetles as his speciality.
In 1818 Carl Reinhold Sahlberg succeeded Carl Niclas Hellenius as professor of economy and natural history at Finland’s then only University in Turku (Åbo), the Academy of Åbo. In 1827 the town and the university were destroyed by fire. The remnants of the natural history collections were taken to Helsinki where the University then moved (and eventually became University of Helsinki – the old chair in economy and natural history was renamed "zoology and botany"). Sahlberg replaced the lost collections, played a major role in establishing a new botanical garden in Helsinki, and with his pupils organised a scientific society "Societas pro fauna et flora fennica". Its only scope was natural history. The society widened to include other sectors of biology only in 1921 .
[edit] Works
- Dissertatio entomologica insecta Fennica enumerans (Coleoptera) 1834
[edit] Collections
Sahlberg's insect collection is in the Finnish Museum of Natural History.
