Edward P. Van Duzee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edward P. Van Duzee

U.S entomologist (1861–1940)

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1861

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 02-Jun-1940

Profession: zoologist, entomologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Edward Payson Van Duzee (6 April 1861 – 2 June 1940) was an American entomologist noted for his work on Hemiptera.
As of 1885, he was a librarian at Grosvenor Library of Buffalo New York for 28 years, and then relocated to California in 1912 where he took a position at Scripps Institute in La Jolla.
The same year, Van Duzee became a fellow at the Entomological Society of America.
Due to his fellowship, Van Duzee was appointed as an instructor of entomology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1914–16, after which he was served as curator of the entomology collection at the California Academy of Sciences from 1916 to 1940.
At the time of his death, he had approximately 165 publications (Science, 1940) in addition to his noted Catalogue of the Hemiptera where he established 46 new genera and 906 species or subspecies.