Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans
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Anthonie (Antoon) Cornelis Oudemans Jzn (November 12, 1858 – January 14, 1943) was a Dutch
Born in
1892 saw the publication of Oudeman's The Great Sea Serpent, a study of the many sea serpent reports from the world's oceans. Oudemans concluded that such creatures might be a previously unknown large seal, which he dubbed Megophias megophias. Reception of the volume has been described as respectful but "cold". Bernard Heuvelmans later suggested that The Great Sea Serpent was the root of cryptozoology.
In 1917, he published Dodo-studiën: naar aanleiding van de vondst van een gevelsteen met dodo-beeld van 1561 te Vere,[6] an article on extinct dodo research.
In 1895, Oudemans left The Hague to teach biology in the Frisian city of Sneek. He published several scientific articles in later years. He had married Helena Johanna van de Velde in 1887, but became a widower, and remarried to Aletta Amelia Louise Pilgrim in 1919.
In 1942, he donated the
Oudemans died in Arnhem in 1943.
Notes
- ^ This minibiography is based on: Eindhoven G. L. van (1943). "In memoriam Dr. A. C. Oudemans". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 86: 1–56.
- ISSN 0028-0836.
- ^ Bijdrage tot de kennis van het bloedvaatstelsel en de nephridia der Nemertinen. Proefschrift ter verkrijging van den graad van Doctor in de Planten Dierkunde aan de Rijks-Universiteit te Utrecht. Utrecht, P. W. van de Weijer, p. 1–114, Pl. I–III, f. 1–75.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-12-14. Retrieved 2004-12-14.
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- ^ "Dodo-studiën. Naar aanleiding van de vondst van een gevelsteen met dodo-beeld van 1561 te Vere : Oudemans, Anthonie Cornelis, 1858-1943 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Retrieved 2016-09-20.
- ^ Buitendijk, A.M. (1945). "Voorloopige Catalogus van de Acari in de Collectie-Oudemans". Zoologische Mededelingen. 24: 281–391.
External links
- From Institut Virtuel de Cryptozoologie In French
- The Great Sea Serpent At Archive.org
- Dodo-studiën (1915)