Enzio Rafael Reuter
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Enzio Rafael Reuter was a Finnish
entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
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He wrote. Über die Palpen der Rhopalocera. Ein Beitrag zur Erkenntnis der verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen unter den Tagfaltern. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, Helsingfors, 22 (1): I-XVI, 1-577 (1896) an important work on the classificaation of lepidoptera in which some higher level taxa are erected.
Reuter was a cytologist
and student of Phylogenetics
.His collection is conserved in the Natural History Museum of Helsinki
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Reuter was a correspondent with and admirer of the German Darwinist Ernst Haeckel
"In 1868 Haeckel had given his first edition of the natural history of creation and this work, more than any other, made Darwinism to a generally accepted world view… Reuter’s dissertation carries a label of its time. It is a typical phylogenetic handling, inspired by Haeckel’s spirit that at the close of the century totally dominated the biological research."(Federley H., 1951)
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...
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He wrote. Über die Palpen der Rhopalocera. Ein Beitrag zur Erkenntnis der verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen unter den Tagfaltern. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, Helsingfors, 22 (1): I-XVI, 1-577 (1896) an important work on the classificaation of lepidoptera in which some higher level taxa are erected.
Reuter was a cytologist
Cell biology
Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...
and student of Phylogenetics
Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relatedness among groups of organisms , which is discovered through molecular sequencing data and morphological data matrices...
.His collection is conserved in the Natural History Museum of Helsinki
Natural History Museum of Helsinki
The Natural History Museum of Helsinki is an exhibition of the Finnish Museum of Natural History of the University of Helsinki. It has the largest zoological collection in Finland. The museum is located in Etu-Töölö in central Helsinki....
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Reuter was a correspondent with and admirer of the German Darwinist Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
The "European War" became known as "The Great War", and it was not until 1920, in the book "The First World War 1914-1918" by Charles à Court Repington, that the term "First World War" was used as the official name for the conflict.-Research:...
"In 1868 Haeckel had given his first edition of the natural history of creation and this work, more than any other, made Darwinism to a generally accepted world view… Reuter’s dissertation carries a label of its time. It is a typical phylogenetic handling, inspired by Haeckel’s spirit that at the close of the century totally dominated the biological research."(Federley H., 1951)
External links
- Biography In Finnish. Portrait.