Eduard Heinrich Graeffe

For the German mathematician, see Karl Heinrich Gräffe.

Eduard Heinrich Graeffe or Gräffe (27 December 1833, Zurich – 23 April 1916 Ljubljana) was a Swiss zoologist and naturalist. As an entomologist, he specialised in Hymenoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera.

From around 1860, Graeffe was in the employ of Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy, a wealthy shipping magnate from Hamburg. Graeffe was hired in order to organize Godeffroy's natural history collection as a scientific museum, the "Museum Godeffroy".[1][2][3] From 1862 to 1873, he was based in Samoa,[2] conducting scientific research and collecting specimens from throughout the South Pacific. Among his writings of the expedition was: Reisen im Innern dei Insel Viti Levu (in: Neujahrsblatt der Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zürich auf das Jahr 1868, Nr. 70).[4]

From 1875 to 1898, he worked as an inspector at the Zoological Station in Trieste.[5] The Fiji whistler (Pachycephala graeffii) is named in honor,[6][7] as is Arthrocormus graeffii, a botanical species described by German bryologist Karl Müller.[8]

  1. ^ Discovery of Australia's Fishes A History of Australian Ichthyology to 1930 by Brian Saunders
  2. ^ a b Collectors Index Herbarium Lichen herbaria
  3. ^ Note: The museum contained insects from Australia, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, the Phoenix Islands etc., and also functioned as a dealership in natural history material.
  4. ^ Reisen im Inneren der Insel Viti-Levu Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Neujahrsblatt der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich auf das Jahr 1868, Nr. 70.
  5. ^ Google Books Collected Papers by Charles Atwood Kofoid
  6. ^ Avibase Fiji Whistler (Pachycephala graeffii)
  7. ^ Helm dictionary of scientific bird names - SlideShare Archived 2015-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen. [Hauptbd.], Volume 1 by JanPeter Frahm, Jens Eggers