Gustaf Kolthoff

Gustaf Isak Kolthoff (14 December 1845 – 25 October 1913) was a Swedish ornithologist, taxidermist and naturalist. He worked as a curator of the museum at Uppsala and set up a private museum where he is credited with the creation of the first naturalistic dioramas which became a popular format in European natural history museums.^[1]

^ Kamcke, Claudia; Hutterer, Rainer (2015), Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale; Scheersoi, Annette (eds.), "History of Dioramas" (PDF), Natural History Dioramas, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 7–21, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9496-1_2, ISBN 978-94-017-9495-4, S2CID 194125688, retrieved 2022-12-31

[1] Kamcke, Claudia; Hutterer, Rainer (2015), Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale; Scheersoi, Annette (eds.), "History of Dioramas" (PDF), Natural History Dioramas, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 7–21, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9496-1_2, ISBN 978-94-017-9495-4, S2CID 194125688, retrieved 2022-12-31

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