Billberg, Gustaf Johan (1772-1844)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Gustaf Johan Billberg (June 14, 1772 – November 26, 1844) was a Swedish botanist, zoologist and anatomist.

Billberg was the author of Ekonomisk botanik (1815-16), Enumeratio insectorum in museo (1820) and Synopsis Faunae Scandinaviae (1827).

The plant genus Billbergia was named for him.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Billberg, G. J. 1820. Enumeratio insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg. Stockholm: Gadel, 138 pp.

REFERENCE

 * Evenhuis, N.L. 1997. Litteratura Taxonomica Dipterorum (1758-1930)1: 93-95, portrait.