Reinhold Ferdinand Sahlberg (23 December 1811 ,

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– 18 March 1874,

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) was a Finnish naturalist notably specialising in

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. He was the son of the entomologist and botanist

Carl Reinhold Sahlberg Carl Reinhold Sahlberg (January 22, 1779, Eura – October 18, 1860, Yläne) was a Finnish naturalist, primarily an entomologist specializing in beetles. He was the father of entomologist Reinhold Ferdinand Sahlberg (1811-1874), grandfather of ...

(1774–1860) and the father of the entomologist and explorer Johan Reinhold Sahlberg (1845–1920). In 1827 Reinhold Sahlberg entered, at the age of sixteen, the Imperial Alexander University in Finland where his father taught. He received his magister in 1836 and his title of doctor of medicine in 1840. Between 1839 and 1843, he participated as a naturalist in a circumnavigation to

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and then to

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in Alaska which returned by

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. Between 1845 and 1852, Reinhold Sahlberg worked as assistant of zoology and botany at the University of Helsingfors (Helsingfors Universitet – Swedish for Helsinki). In 1849–1851 he returned to Brazil. The rich collections made by Sahlberg lie today in the

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and the

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Works

*Sahlberg, R. F. 1834: Dissertatio academica. ''Novas Coleopterorum Fennicorum species sistens''. Helsingforsiae, Typis Frenckelliorum 1–12 *Sahlberg, R. F. 1834 Novae Coleopterorum Fennicorum species. ''Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou'', Moscou 7: 267–280 *Sahlberg, R. F. 1844 ''In Faunam Insectorum Rossicam symbola, novas ad Ochotsk lectas Carabicorum species continens, quam, venia amplissime facultatis philosophicae ad Universitatem Imperialem Alexandream in Fennia'', Resp. Josepho Benjamino von Pfaler, ... In Auditorio Philos. die VII Decembris MDCCCXLIV. Helsingforsae, ex officina Typographica Frenckelliana 1-154+ p. *Sahlberg, R. F. 1844–1847 Coleoptera diebus XV – XXVII decembris anni MDCCCXXXIX ad Rio Janeiro lecta. ''Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae'', Helsingforsae 2 (1, 2) *Sahlberg, R. F. 1844 ''In Faunam Insectorum Rossicam symbola, novas ad Ochotsk lectas Carabicorum species sistens''. (Diss. inaug.). Resp. J. B. von Pfaler. ''Acta Societatis Scientiarum'' Fennicae, Helsingforsae *Sahlberg, R. F. 1847 Coleoptera diebus XV – XXVII decembris anni MDCCCXXXIX ad Rio Janeiro lecta. (Continuatio). ''Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae'', Helsingforsae – 2 (2) 787–805 *Sahlberg, R. F. 1844 ''Monographia Geocorisarum Fenniae quam Venia Amplissimae Facultatis Philosophicae ad Universitatem Imperialem Alexandream in Fennia''

References

Horn, W. H. R. & Schenkling, S. 1928–1929: ''Index Litteraturae Entomologicae'', Serie I: die Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive 1863. – Berlin-Dahlem, Selbstverlag W. Horn 1–4 XXI p., 1426 p., 4 Tafeln {{DEFAULTSORT:Sahlberg, Reinhold Ferdinand 1811 births 1874 deaths Finnish entomologists