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Rudolph Bergh

Danish zoologist

Died when: 84 years 278 days (1017 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Rudolph Bergh

Rudolph Bergh (15 October 1824 – 20 July 1909), full name Ludvig Sophus Rudolph Bergh, was a Danish physician and malacologist.He worked in Copenhagen.

As a doctor his speciality was sexually transmitted diseases.In Copenhagen a hospital and a street are named after him.

Bergh was also an active malacologist, i.e. a zoologist who studies molluscs, in particular the nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropods.

He had well over 90 publications in this field and took part in a scientific expedition to Indonesia.He named and described numerous species of nudibranchs.


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