Peter Ascanius

Peter Ascanius
Peter Ascanius
Born	24 May 1723; Aure, Møre og Romsdal, Norway.
Died	4 June 1803 (aged 80); Copenhagen, Denmark
Citizenship	Norwegian
	Scientific career
Fields	Biologist
Academic advisors	Linnaeus

Peter Ascanius (24 May 1723 – 4 June 1803) was a Norwegian biologist.[1]

He was born at Aure in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He was a student of Linnaeus. He taught zoology and mineralogy in Copenhagen from 1759 to 1771, and later worked as a supervisor at the mines in Kongsberg and elsewhere in Norway. Among his published works was the five-volume illustrated Icones rerum naturalium. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, elected in 1755 as a Foreign Member.[2][3]

Ascanius first described the giant oarfish in 1772.

Notes

"Peder Ascanius (1723-1803)" (PDF). Naturhistorisk Museum, UiO. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
"Fellow details". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
Rune S. Selbekk. "Peder Ascanius". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved January 1, 2017.

External links

Icones rerum naturalium Volume I at the Center for Retrospective Digitization, Göttingen

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[1] "Peder Ascanius (1723-1803)" (PDF). Naturhistorisk Museum, UiO. Retrieved January 1, 2017.

[2] "Fellow details". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 14 October 2012.

[3] Rune S. Selbekk. "Peder Ascanius". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved January 1, 2017.