Guido Grandi (3 March 1886

Vigevano Vigevano (; lmo, label=Western Lombard, Avgevan) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Pavia, Lombardy in northern Italy. A historic art town, it is also renowned for shoemaking and is one of the main centres of Lomellina, a rice-growing ...

, – 10 December 1970,

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

) was an Italian

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. In 1928 he founded the Institute of Entomology at the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...

(l'Istituto di Entomologia dell'Università di Bologna).

Works

* * *"Introduzione allo studio dell'Entomologia" (1951),2300 pages.
Studi di un Entomologo sugli Imenotteri superiori
(1961), 650 pages *"Istituzioni di Entomologia generale" (1966), 700 pages {{DEFAULTSORT:Grandi, Guido Italian entomologists 1886 births 1970 deaths 20th-century Italian zoologists