Kai Ludvig HENRIKSEN - papers on Opiliones

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Kai Ludvig HENRIKSEN


Birthdate: 8 January 1888

Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark.

Died: 28 Juni 1940

BIOGRAPHY:

Henriksen was born in Copenhagen, as the son of a police constable. His major contribution for taxonomy of Opiliones was the monumental posthumous edition of the notes left by Sørensen.

Danish entomologist. Henriksen made a clear mark on the Zoological Museum Copenhagen (ZMUC) arthropods Department, whose director he was from 1931, and the entomological journal releases, which he edited 1919-32. His multifaceted original research related mostly to beetles but also wasps, galls, insect fossils; his dissertation from 1933 deals with Quaternary insect fossils. His overview of Danish Entomologis History (1921-37) is a masterpiece of Danish zoological history.

[translated from Den Store Danske, with complementary data from N.P. Kristensen].

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS PAGE:

  • Niels Peder Kristensen (ZMUC) (contributed picture of Henriksen)
  • Plamen Mitov (contributed PDFs - 1929a-b, 1932)
  • Axel Schönhofer (contributed PDF - 1938)
  • BHL/IA (provided PDF - H&K 1917)


DISCLAIMER — This resource was first intended as for private use of the members of the arachnology lab of Museu Nacional, but later we thought "why not to share this with the world?". Eventually if greedy lawyers (redundance...) start to bother us with copyright matters, etc, we may have to be forced to quit the project and keep this just to ourselves.
Henriksen, K.L. (1929a) Arachnida. Opiliones, pp. 25–26. In: Zur Land-Evertebratenfauna Islands. I. (Lindroth, C.H.). Göteborgs kungl. Vetenskaps-och Vitterhets-Samhälles Handlingar, femte följden, Serie B, 1(4) [“1928”], 1–52.
Henriksen, K.L. (1929b) XLVI. Opiliones and Chernetes. In: Sparck R. & Tuxen, S.L. (Eds.), The Zoology of the Faroes, vol. 2(46). Andr. Fred. Host. & Son: Copenhagen, pp. 1–4.
Henriksen, K.L. (1932) I. Opiliones, pp. 4–6. In: Isländische Spinnentierre. I. Opiliones, Chernetes, Araneae (Henriksen, K.L., Lindroth, C.H. & Braendegaard, J.). Göteborgs kungl. Vetenskaps-och Vitterhets-Samhälles Handlingar, femte följden, Serie B, 2(7), 1–36.
Henriksen, K.L. (1938) Opiliones and Chernetes. In: Friðriksson, A. & Tuxen, S.L. (Eds.), The Zoology of Iceland. Vol. III, part 53. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen and Reykjavík, pp. 1–9, 5 maps.
Henriksen, K.L. & Lundbeck, W. (1917) Grønlands landarthropoder (Insecta et Arachnida Groenlandicæ). Meddelelser om Grønland 22(2). Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, København, pp. 481–823.
Credits

Page created Copyright © 2009-2011 by Adriano B. Kury.
Picture of KH, courtesy Niels Peder Kristensen -- photo taken not long before his untimely death (from an appendicitis - in 1940, when he was just 52).
Biographical sketch from Den Store Danske, with complementary data from N.P. Kristensen.