Philippe Dautzenberg (20 December 1849, in

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– 9 May 1935, in

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) was a

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, a

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who specializes in the branch of

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that deals with

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s. He was an amateur and

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, who was actually the owner of a carpet and soft furnishings factory. He was also a devoted family man with 12 children. He assembled, thanks to his many connections all over the world, a large part of the shell collection of the

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, which consists of 9,000,000 specimens and is one of the three largest shell collections in the world. He was a participant in the scientific surveys of

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and the author of 210 published works (between 1881 and 1937 (post mortem) ) in the field of

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. He described 1895 new taxa. He collected shells from an early age, resulting in his personal collection of about 4.5 million specimens, relating to 33,000 Recent taxa and 7,000 fossil species. He referenced 82,000 specimens on filing cards. He belonged to several scientific societies in Belgium and France, including the ''Société royale malacologique de Belgique'', ''Société linnéenne de Lyon'' (1921–1935) and the ''Société d'histoire naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord'' (1926). In 1892 he was named president of the ''

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Selected works

* ''Contribution à la faune malacologique des Îles Açores'', 1889 – Contribution to the malacological fauna of the

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. * ''Voyage de la goelette Melita aux Canaries et au Sénégal 1889-–890'' – Voyage of the schooner ''Melita'' to the

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and

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in 1889–90). * ''Contribution à la faune malacologique de l'Indo-Chine'', (with H Fischer), 1906 – Contribution to the malacological fauna of

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. * ''Mollusques et brachiopodes'', 1910 – Mollusks and

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s. * ''Pectinidés'', 1912 (with

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) –

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. * ''Sinistrorsités et dextrorsités tératologiques chez les mollusques gastéropodes'', 1914. * ''Faunule malacologique marine du Val-André (Côtes-du-Nord)'', 1920 – Marine malacological fauna of Val-André ( Côtes-du-Nord). * Dautzenberg P. (1923) "Mollusques terrestres de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty"
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. * "Ph. Dautzenberg's collection of Cypraeidae", (in English, 1952; with F. A. Schilder;

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References

*Duchamps Ph., 1986, ''Philippe Dautzenberg (Ixelles, le 20 décembre 1849 – Paris, le 9 mai 1935)'', Apex, 1 (2): 47–62, pls 1–3. *Duchamps Ph., 1989, "Philippe Dautzenberg, son oeuvre, sa collection", ''Annales de la Societé royale zoologique de Belgique'', 119 (2) : 215–222. *Lamy, E., 1935, "Nécrologie Philippe Dautzenberg (1849–1935)", ''Journal de Conchyliologie'', 79: 182–203, 1 photo. * Pelseneer P., 1936, "Philippe Dautzenberg (1849–1935)", ''Annales de la Societé royale zoologique de Belgique'', 66 : 87–91, 1 foto. *Van Goethem J. L. & Backeljau T., 1997, "History and value of the malacological collections of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences", In: Nudds J. R. & Pettitt C. W. (eds.), ''Proceedings of the international Conference'', Manchester 1995, pp. 258–262, figs. 1–6. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dautzenberg, Philippe 1849 births 1935 deaths Belgian malacologists Belgian zoologists