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Name
  
Hugo Christoph


Died
  
November 5, 1894

Hugo Theodor Christoph

Born
  
16 April 1831 (
1831-04-16
)

Hugo Theodor Christoph (16 April 1831 – 5 November 1894) was a German and Russian entomologist.

Born in Herrnhut in Saxony, Hugo Theodor Christoph moved to Russia in 1858. He becomes a member of the Russian Entomological Society in 1861. From 1880, he is the curator of the Lepidoptera collection of the Russian Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia.

His own collection was sold to Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, a member of the Royal Entomological Society, and it is now in the Natural History Museum in London.

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