Herluf Winge

Danish zoologist

Adolf Herluf Winge

Born	(1857-03-19)19 March 1857 Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	10 November 1923(1923-11-10) (aged 66) Hellerup, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Scientific career
Fields	Zoology, paleontology
Author abbrev. (zoology)	Winge

Adolf Herluf Winge (19 March 1857 – 10 November 1923) was a Danish zoologist.

Biography

As a young student, along with his brother Oluf, Winge was interested in small mammals, particularly moles, shrews and insectivora. He studied mammalian dentition and produced a comparison of cusp similarities. He worked at the Zoological Museum in the University of Copenhagen from 1885. A major work was his three volumes of E Museo Lundii on the extinct fauna of South America with 75 plates that he drew. He also studied the animal remains found in the kitchen-middens of Denmark.^[1]^[2]

Winge was described as a Lamarckist by some authors.^[3]

References

^ Anon. (1923). "Obituary". Nature. 112 (2826): 946–947. Bibcode:1923Natur.112..946M. doi:10.1038/112946b0.
^ Böving, AG (1924). "Herluf Winge, 1857–1923". Journal of Mammalogy. 5 (3): 196–199. doi:10.2307/1373288. JSTOR 1373288.
^ Hansen, P (1902). Illustreret dansk Litteraturhistorie. Volume 3 (in Danish). Copenhagen: Gyldendals Forlag.