Strand, Embrik (1876-1947)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Embrik Strand (1876 Ål – 1947 Riga) was an arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue tarantula.

He studied at the University of Kristiania (now University of Oslo). Around 1900 he focused on collecting insect specimens from Norway. These are now deposited at the university's museum, where he worked as a curator from 1901 to 1903.

After studying at the University of Oslo Strand traveled in Norway from 1898 to 1903 collecting a great number of insects. For part of this time (1901-1903) he was a conservator in the museum of zoology of the university. He then left for Germany where he continued his studies of zoology at the University of Marburg (1903), then he worked with Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart(1905) and, later, that of Tübingen and then with Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt. From 1907, he worked with Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 1923, he accepted the post of professor of zoology at the University of Riga and where he directed the Institute of zoology and hydrobiology

He was a prolific author, the list of his publications which he published in 1918 (after only twenty years of activity) is 1, 200 titles.

Strand's collection of insects and spiders from Norway is in the Zoological Museum of the University of Oslo. His types are in the German Entomological Institute and the Museum für Naturkunde

TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS

 * Strand, E. 1911. Ein bisher unbekanntes Dorylidenweibchen aus Kamerun. Jahrb. Nassau. Ver. Naturkd. 64: 118-120


 * Strand, E. 1935. Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. VIII. Folia Zool. Hydrobiol. 8: 176

REFERENCE

 * Spacek, A. 1935. Lambillionea 35:194-199, portrait.