Victor Hansen (29 August 1889 – 6 March 1974) was a Danish jurist, entomologist and

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player. As an entomologist he specialized in the beetles and is best known for his contributions to the beetle volumes of the ''Danmarks Fauna'' series. He competed in two events at the

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. Hansen studied law after going to the Metropolitanskolen and graduating in 1913 he joined the law ministry in 1915. He became a senior judge in 1941 and retired in 1959. Collecting beetles from the age of 22, he pursued entomology in his spare time throughout his life. His first publication was on the Danish Scydmaenidae (1911) and over his lifetime, he published numerous papers and 23 volumes on beetles in the series ''Danmarks Fauna''. His collections are now held by the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen. He was given an honorary doctorate by Copenhagen University in 1950.

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* 1889 births 1974 deaths Danish male tennis players Olympic tennis players for Denmark Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Copenhagen Danish entomologists 20th-century Danish zoologists {{Denmark-tennis-bio-stub