Carl Bolle

Carl August Bolle (1821 – February 17, 1909) was a German naturalist and collector.

Bolle was born at Berlin into a wealthy brewing family. He studied medicine and natural science at Berlin and Bonn. He visited the Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands in 1852 and 1856, and wrote Meiner zweiter Beitrage zur Vogelkunde der Canarischen Inseln in 1857.

Bolle was a founder member of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (German Ornithological Society) in 1867, succeeding Alfred Brehm as Chairman in 1884.

The Bolle's Laurel Pigeon (Columba bollii) of the Canary Islands was named after him by Frederick DuCane Godman.

The standard author abbreviation Bolle is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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Name	Bolle, Carl
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Date of birth	1821
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Date of death	February 17, 1909
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