{{Short description|Baltic German naturalist (1829–1883)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Gustav Flor | image = Gustav Flor.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Gustav Flor | birth_date = {{osd|13 August|1829|1}} | birth_place = Alt-Salis, Kreis Wolmar, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (present-day Vecsalaca, Limbaži Municipality, Latvia) | death_date = {{osd|13 May|1883|1}} (aged 53) | death_place = Dorpat, Kreis Dorpat, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (present-day Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia)<ref>{{cite web|title=Biografien der Entomologen der Welt : Datenbank. Version 4.15|url=http://sdei.de/biographies/|publisher=Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut|accessdate=31 December 2011|editor-last=Groll |editor-first= E.K.|language=German|year=2010}}</ref> | fields = Zoology | workplaces = Imperial University of Dorpat }} '''Gustav August Adam Flor''' ({{osd|13 August|1829|1 August}} &ndash; {{osd|13 May|1883|1 May}}) was a Baltic German zoologist from Livonia.

==Life and career== Flor studied medicine and natural science at the Imperial University of Dorpat, later becoming a professor of zoology. In 1860, he became director of the zoological cabinet, which he remained until his death in 1883 (the zoological cabinet was the predecessor of the Zoology Museum at the University of Tartu, where his 11,815-specimen entomological collection still resides).<ref>{{cite web|title=Museum of Zoology: History|url=http://www.ut.ee/BGZM/history/history.html|publisher=University of Tartu Natural History Museum|accessdate=31 December 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219232716/http://www.ut.ee/BGZM/history/history.html|archivedate=19 February 2012}}</ref>

He is best known for his studies of Hemiptera, especially the two-volume work ''Die Rhynchoten Livlands in systematischer Folge beschrieben'' ("''The Hemiptera of Livonia, Described In Systematic Order''").<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary|journal=Entomologist's Monthly Magazine|year=1883–1884|volume=20|url=https://archive.org/stream/entomologistsmo26compgoog#page/n102/mode/1up|accessdate=31 December 2011|page=72|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Ryder|first=David A.|title=Biographical & Type Information- F|url=http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/rider/Pentatomoidea/Biographical/biographical_F.htm|work=Pentatomidea Home Page|publisher=North Dakota State University, Fargo|accessdate=31 December 2011|year=2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207142230/http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/rider/Pentatomoidea/Biographical/biographical_F.htm|archivedate=7 February 2012}}</ref>

==Works== * [http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/handle/10062/2287?mode=full&submit_simple=Show+full+item+record ''Rhynchotorum Livonicorum descriptio''] Flor's 1856 thesis (Latin:"Description of Livonian Hemiptera") * [https://archive.org/details/dierhynchotenliv11flor ''Die Rhynchoten Livlands in systematischer Folge beschrieben'', v.1 (1860)] (German) * [https://archive.org/details/dierhynchotenliv02flor ''Die Rhynchoten Livlands in systematischer Folge beschrieben'', v.2 (1861)] (German)

==See also== * List of Baltic German scientists

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Sources== * {{cite Efron|Флор, Густав}}

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