Citizenship Norwegian Fields Biologist Died 1803, Copenhagen, Denmark | Name Peter Ascanius Academic advisors Linnaeus | |
 | ||
Peter Ascanius (24 May 1723 – 4 June 1803) was a Norwegian biologist.
He was born at Aure in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He was a student of Linnaeus. He taught zoology and mineralogy in Copenhagen from 1759 to 1771, and later worked as a supervisor at the mines in Kongsberg and elsewhere in Norway. Among his published works was the five-volume illustrated Icones rerum naturalium. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, elected in 1755 as a Foreign Member.
Ascanius first discovered the giant oarfish in 1772.
References
Peter Ascanius Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA