Aristide Caradja

Aristide Caradja
Born (1861-09-28)September 28, 1861
Dresden, Germany
Died May 29, 1955(1955-05-29) (aged 93)
Bucharest, Romania
Nationality Romanian
Occupation Entomologist, Lawyer
Known for Discovering hundreds of species of butterflies

Aristide Caradja (28 September 1861–29 May 1955) was a Romanian entomologist 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.[1] His father died in 1887, whereupon Aristide moved to Romania. He did most of his work there.[2] In 1893, Caradja published his first paper, which organized and discovered several butterflies in France and in his area. Between 1927-1939, he studied and collected butterflies in the Black Sea region and in China.[2] In 1944, he donated his work and collection (known as the Lepidoptera collection) to the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History.[3] He was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1948,[4] soon after the communist regime came to power. He retired shortly thereafter and died in Bucharest in 1955.

References

  1. ↑ "Casa memoriala Aristide Caradja - Piatra-Neamt". zigzagturistic.ro. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Savantul entomolog Aristide Caradja". zch.ro. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Casa Memoriala Aristide Caradja – Judetul Neamt". viziteazaneamt.ro. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  4. ↑ (Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site
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