Aristide Caradja

Aristide Caradja
Born(1861-09-28)September 28, 1861
Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony
DiedMay 29, 1955(1955-05-29) (aged 93)
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania
NationalityRomanian
Occupation(s)Entomologist, Lawyer
Known forDiscovering hundreds of species of butterflies and moths

Aristide Caradja (28 September 1861 – 29 May 1955)[1] was a Romanian entomologist[2] and lawyer.

Life

Aristide Caradja was born in 1861 to the Caradja family, nobles with Greek-Byzantine origins who had serves as dignitaries in the Ottoman Empire.[3] His father died in 1887, whereupon Aristide moved to Romania. He did most of his work there.[4] In 1893, Caradja published his first paper, which organized and discovered several butterflies in France and in his area. Between 1927 and 1939, he studied and collected butterflies in the Black Sea region and in China.[4] In 1944, he donated his work and collection (known as the Lepidoptera collection) to the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History.[5] He was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1948,[6] soon after the communist regime came to power. He retired shortly thereafter and died in Bucharest in 1955.

References

  1. ^ Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Stᾰnescu, Mihai (2016-09-16). "Revised status of Oridryas Meyrick, 1938: new synonyms of Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796, and Ypsolopha parenthesella (Linnaeus, 1761 (Yponomeutoidea: Ypsolophidae)". Zootaxa. 4168 (3): 589–593. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4168.3.12. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27701332.
  2. ^ "Aristide Caradja, Entomologist And Philosopher". www.icr.ro. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  3. ^ "Casa memoriala Aristide Caradja – Piatra-Neamt". zigzagturistic.ro. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Savantul entomolog Aristide Caradja". zch.ro. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Casa Memoriala Aristide Caradja – Judetul Neamt". viziteazaneamt.ro. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  6. ^ (in Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site


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