Malcolm Burr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Malcolm Burr

English professor, translator, and entomologist

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1878

Place of Birth: Blackheath, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 13-Jul-1954

Profession: translator, geologist, entomologist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Malcolm Burr (6 July 1878 - 13 July 1954) was an English author, translator, entomologist, and geologist.
He taught English at the School of Economics in Istanbul, and spent most of his life in Turkey.He was a noted specialist of earwigs (Dermaptera) and crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera).
He was the first to classify earwigs on the basis of copulatory organs, and the diversity and biology of the earwigs of Sri Lanka is well studied due to major contributions by Burr in 1901.