John Van Denburgh
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1872 – 1924
Who was John Van Denburgh?
John Van Denburgh was an American herpetologist from California.
He was born in San Francisco and enrolled at Stanford University in 1891. As of 1895, he organized the herpetology department of the California Academy of Sciences. In 1897 he received a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Additionally, he earned a M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1902 and subsequently practiced medicine in San Francisco, while again serving as curator of the herpetological collections of the California Academy of Sciences.
After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 he was instrumental in rebuilding the lost herpetology collections through new expeditions and also acquisitions of other collections. In 1922, he published the two-volume The Reptiles of Western North America.
He died in 1924 while on vacation in Hawaii.
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- Born
- Aug 23, 1872
San Francisco - Also known as
- Van Denburgh
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Stanford University
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Died
- Oct 24, 1924
Honolulu
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on July 23, 2013
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