Johannes Bastiaan Corporaal | |
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Died | 28 May 1952 | (aged 72)
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Johannes Bastiaan Corporaal (23 April 1880 – 28 May 1952) was a Dutch entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. Corporaal was considered a world authority on the beetle family Cleridae. [1]
Corporaal was born at The Hague on 23 April 1880. [2] [3] His parents were an Official, Gerard Cornelis Corporaal (also known as Cornelis Gerardus Korporaal) and Anna Corporaal (née van Hunsel), who were married on 21 June 1877. [3] [4]
Corporaal's early education was at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft; he then moved to Wageningen for studies at the National Agricultural School, hoping to go on to work in Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies). [2] He received his Agricultural diploma on 5 July 1902. [2]
In 1903 Corporaal traveled to Indonesia, where he worked first at Java and then at Sumatra [2] as an assistant tobacco planter [3] at plantations belonging to the company Senembah Maatschappij. [2] From 1912 Corporaal was Manager of a tea and rubber plantation in Java. [3] Corporaal's work involved using his agricultural and entomological training to try to combat crop pests, and he studied beetles in his spare time. [2]
In April–June 1915 Corporaal collected several weevils from the family Anthribidae which he sent for identification to Karl Jordan at the Tring Museum in Hertfordshire, U.K. [5]
Corporaal suffered from a period of ill-health circa 1915 which caused him to return to the Netherlands where he met his future wife, Annie van Rienderhoff. [2] They were married at Penang. Malaysia on 22 August 1917. [3] Corporaal had a five-year contract to work as an entomologist at the Dutch rubber-planter research station near Medan, Sumatra [ Algemeene Vereeniging van Rubberplanters ter Oostkust van Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.)]. [2] [3] After Corporaal's contract ended in 1921 he and Annie returned to the Netherlands, settling in Amsterdam, where Corporaal took a job as an entomological curator at the Amsterdam Zoological Museum. [2]
In 1928 Corporaal attended the fourth International Congress of Entomology in Ithaca, New York as a representative of the Amsterdam Zoological Museum and the Netherlands. [6] He appears as attendee number 51 in the official Congress photograph.
Corporaal built up a personal collection of Cleridae specimens during his career which contained 1200 different types and forms, with around 17,000 specimens in total. [2] After his death these were donated to the Amsterdam Zoological Museum. [2]
Johannes Bastiaan Corporaal | |
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Born | |
Died | 28 May 1952 | (aged 72)
Occupation |
Johannes Bastiaan Corporaal (23 April 1880 – 28 May 1952) was a Dutch entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. Corporaal was considered a world authority on the beetle family Cleridae. [1]
Corporaal was born at The Hague on 23 April 1880. [2] [3] His parents were an Official, Gerard Cornelis Corporaal (also known as Cornelis Gerardus Korporaal) and Anna Corporaal (née van Hunsel), who were married on 21 June 1877. [3] [4]
Corporaal's early education was at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft; he then moved to Wageningen for studies at the National Agricultural School, hoping to go on to work in Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies). [2] He received his Agricultural diploma on 5 July 1902. [2]
In 1903 Corporaal traveled to Indonesia, where he worked first at Java and then at Sumatra [2] as an assistant tobacco planter [3] at plantations belonging to the company Senembah Maatschappij. [2] From 1912 Corporaal was Manager of a tea and rubber plantation in Java. [3] Corporaal's work involved using his agricultural and entomological training to try to combat crop pests, and he studied beetles in his spare time. [2]
In April–June 1915 Corporaal collected several weevils from the family Anthribidae which he sent for identification to Karl Jordan at the Tring Museum in Hertfordshire, U.K. [5]
Corporaal suffered from a period of ill-health circa 1915 which caused him to return to the Netherlands where he met his future wife, Annie van Rienderhoff. [2] They were married at Penang. Malaysia on 22 August 1917. [3] Corporaal had a five-year contract to work as an entomologist at the Dutch rubber-planter research station near Medan, Sumatra [ Algemeene Vereeniging van Rubberplanters ter Oostkust van Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.)]. [2] [3] After Corporaal's contract ended in 1921 he and Annie returned to the Netherlands, settling in Amsterdam, where Corporaal took a job as an entomological curator at the Amsterdam Zoological Museum. [2]
In 1928 Corporaal attended the fourth International Congress of Entomology in Ithaca, New York as a representative of the Amsterdam Zoological Museum and the Netherlands. [6] He appears as attendee number 51 in the official Congress photograph.
Corporaal built up a personal collection of Cleridae specimens during his career which contained 1200 different types and forms, with around 17,000 specimens in total. [2] After his death these were donated to the Amsterdam Zoological Museum. [2]