Jörgen Vilhelm Bergsøe (8 February 1835 - 26 June 1911) was a Danish entomologist who moved to Italy and became a novelist and poet. Bergsøe was born in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

. He studied natural sciences, specializing in entomology and graduated in 1860 with a thesis was on a parasitic copepod '' Philichthys xiphiae'' described by

Japetus Steenstrup Johannes Japetus Smith Steenstrup FRS(For) HFRSE (8 March 1813 – 20 June 1897) was a Danish zoologist, biologist, and professor. Life Born in Vang, Thy on 8 March 1813, he held a lectorate in mineralogy in Sorø until 1845 when he became a ...

. He later published a book on ''Pictures of Insect Life from Field and Wood'' (1915) and various papers, such as on centipedes, describing several new species. He suffered from poor eyesight, gave up entomology, and moved to Italy for better health and stayed on in Rome, Naples and Sicily writing historically located novels in the style of A. M. Goldschmidt such as ''Italienske noveller'' ("Italian novels", 1874), ''Fra den gamble fabrik'' ("From the old factory", 1869 ); and ''Rom under Pius den niende'' ("Rome under Pius IX", 1877).

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