Historical Objects / Medals

Collection of Tyler Yates

Carl Johan Schönherr

Engraver:
Lea Ahlborn (?)
Year:
1853
Country:
Sweden
Diameter:
31 mm
Obverse:
Head of Carl Johan Schönherr facing left.
CAR. JOS. SCHÖNHERR SVEC.
NAT. 1772. DEN. 1848.
Reverse:
Three books on a table. The top book is Schönherr's most famous work Genera et species curculionidum.
DATURA NOMEN AND AUCTORI TEMPORALONGA.
GEN. AND SPEC. CURC .
ENTOMOLOGO PER CELEBRI SOCIO MUNIF.R. AC. SC. SVEC. MDCCCLIII

This jeton commemorates the Swedish entomologist (specifically coleopterist) Carl Johan Schönherr. Schönherr revised the taxonomy of beetles, including weevils. Schönherr was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1809.

Lea Ahlborn may have designed this medal.