Adam Giede Böving
Adam Giede Böving was a Danish-American entomologist and zoologist. He was a specialist in the study of the larvae of the order Coleoptera and the author of a series of descriptions on their early stages of development.Biography
Adam Böving was born at Sæby in Vendsyssel, Denmark. He was the eldest child of Niels Orten Mathias Bøving and Louise Augustine Ottilia Bøving. While working there he became a specialist in the larvae of Coleoptera. From 1939 he was a research associate of the Smithsonian Institution, and retired from USDA in 1945. He wrote and illustrated a number of books principally describing early stages of Coleoptera development.
He became an honorary member of the Entomological Society of America in 1939 and a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1948. He was president 1923-24 of the Entomological Society of Washington and from 1924-32 served as vice president of the Washington Academy of Science.Selected works
