Cándido Bolívar Pieltain

Cándido Bolívar Pieltain (1897-1976) was a Spanish naturalist and entomologist.[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Bolívar and the second or maternal family name is Pieltáin.
Cándido Bolívar Pieltain
C. Bolívar Pieltain in Madrid, 1935
Born15 April 1897
Madrid
Died22 November 1976
Mexico City
Alma materUniversidad Complutense de Madrid
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology

Biography

He studied in Ciudad Real. When he was 14, his article “Observaciones sobre algunas cuevas del Norte de España y descripción de una nueva especie de ‘Speocharis’” was published in the Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. When he was 17 years old, he went to the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, to study sciences. In 1924, he married Amelia Goyanes and they had six children. He travelled to Italy, Greece, Morocco and the United States..

After the Spanish Civil War, he moved to Mexico, where he died in 1976.

Publications
  • Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Serie zoológica, Anales de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Eos, Ciencia.
  • Ciencia. Revista hispano-americana de Ciencias puras y aplicadas. In Mexico.

References
  1. Gomis, Alberto. "Homenaje a Cándido Bolívar (1897-1976) con motivo del centenario de su nacimiento". 21. Llull, Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas: 549 552. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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