Alexey Diakonoff

Alexey Diakonoff
Born1 March 1907 Edit this on Wikidata
Saint Petersburg Edit this on Wikidata
Died20 September 1989 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 82)
Leiden Edit this on Wikidata
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
Awards
  • Officer of the order Orange-Nassau Edit this on Wikidata
Academic career
FieldsLepidopterology
Institutions

Alexey Nikolaievich Diakonoff (1 March 1907 – 20 September 1989), also transliterated as Alexej Nikolajewitsch Diakonoff, was a Russian–Dutch entomologist who specialised in Microlepidoptera.[1][2][3]

His parents immigrated to the Dutch East Indies where, from 1923, he had his elementary education. Diakonoff then studied biology at the University of Amsterdam. A thesis on Indo-Malayan Tortricidae completed, he returned to Java in 1939 to take up a post as an entomologist at a sugar plantations and industries research station. In 1941, he was offered a position at the Bogor Zoology Museum at Bogor Botanical Gardens but the Japanese invasion intervened. In 1945 he returned to the Netherlands and studied at Leiden Museum, working in the Lepidoptera collection. He returned to Bogor as the Dutch tried to regain Java. This failed and in 1951 Diakonoff left Java for the last time. He became Curator of Lepidoptera at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden. He was an active member of the Netherlands Entomological Society and a long-time editor of Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. His scientific work in the Leiden museum continued until his death and his collection is conserved in Naturalis.[1]

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