Eltio_Alegondas_Forsten

Eltio Alegondas Forsten

Eltio Alegondas Forsten

Dutch naturalist (1811–1843)

Eltio Alegondas Forsten (12 July 1811, Middelburg – 1843, Ambon Island) was a Dutch naturalist.[1]

He studied medicine at Leiden, obtaining his degree in 1836 with a thesis on Cedrela febrifuga, titled "Dissertatio botanico-pharmaceutico-medica inauguralis de cedrela febrifuga".[2] In 1838 he became a member of the Natuurkundige Commissie for the Dutch East Indies, where he would spend the next several years collecting zoological and botanical specimens (Java, Sulawesi, Ternate, Ambon).[3]

Eponymy (birds and reptiles)

References

  1. [1]
    Levensberichten van Zeeuwen, Volume 1 by Frederik Nagtglas, Pieter de la Rue
  2. [2]
    Google Books Dissertatio botanico-pharmaceutico-medica inauguralis de cedrela febrifuga
  3. [3]
    Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Sources: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors & Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II.
  4. [4]
    The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
  5. [5]
    The Eponym Dictionary of Birds by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
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