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Feb 07, 1801 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands Died on 15 Apr 1855 (aged 54)
Dutch zoologist
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About Wilhem De Haan
- Wilhem de Haan (7 February 1801 in Amsterdam – 15 April 1855 in Leiden) was a Dutch zoologist.
- He specialised in the study of insects and crustaceans, and was the first keeper of invertebrates at the Rijksmuseum in Leiden, now Naturalis.
- He was forced to retire in 1846, when he was partially paralysed by a spinal disease.
- He was responsible for the invertebrate volume of Siebold's Fauna Japonica, which was published in 1833, and introduced the western world for the first time to Japanese wildlife.
- He named a great many new taxa, and several taxa are named in his honour. He published significant work on both mantids and phasmids (1842).
