Carl Bock
Carl Alfred Bock (17 September 1849 – 10 August 1932) was a Norwegian government official, author, naturalist and explorer.
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Carl Bock
Hans Christian Olsen · Digital Museum · Public domain
- Born
- 17 Sep 1849
- Birthplace
- Copenhagen
- Died
- 10 Aug 1932
- Place of death
- Brussels
- Known for
- Books about Southeast Asia and East Asia
- Occupation
- Explorer, public servant, naturalist, author
- Education
- Kristiansand Cathedral School
- Awards
- Order of St.
- Nationality
- Norway
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Carl Alfred Bock (17 September 1849 – 10 August 1932) was a Norwegian government official, author, naturalist and explorer.
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Carl Bock (1849–1932) was a civil servant, collector and explorer, among other activities, of Norwegian nationality. The civil servant was born in Copenhagen and died in Brussels.
Carl Bock was educated at Kristiansand Cathedral School. Activity centred on ethnography, Mollusca and zoology. Languages used include Norwegian.
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• Born — 17 Sep 1849 • Birthplace — Copenhagen • Died — 10 Aug 1932 • Place of death — Brussels • Known for — Books about Southeast Asia and East Asia • Occupation — Explorer, public servant, naturalist, author • Education — Kristiansand Cathedral School • Awards — Order of St. Olav
Biography
Biography
Bock was born in Copenhagen, Denmark when his parents were traveling on business. He was the son of merchant and factory owner Carl Henirich Bock (1812–1877) and Regitze Hansen (1826–1900). His parents had a cotton factory in Sweden. He grew up in Kristiansand and attended Kristiansand Cathedral School. He continued his education at Christiansfeld in Sønderjylland, Denmark. Later he studied zoology and natural sciences in London, England. Bock served for six years at the Norwegian-Swedish Foreign Consulate at the seaport of Grimsby, England before he came to London in 1875. He obtained private funding, especially from Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale for a journey of discovery to Sumatra and Borneo from 1878 to 1879 under authority of Johan Wilhelm van Lansberge, Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. With the support of the King Chulalongkorn, he traveled in 1881 around the interior of Siam and Laos. In 1886, he joined the joint Swedish-Norwegian Foreign Consulate Service. He was Norwegian-Swedish vice-consul at Shanghai in 1886 and in 1893 consul general in Shanghai. From 1899 to 1900, he was consul in Antwerp and 1900–1903 Consul General in Lisbon. He left the Foreign Consulate Service in 1903 and settled in Brussels. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania) and was a knight, first class of the Order of St. Olav. His large collection of artifacts from Thailand and Indonesia is now kept principally at the British Museum in London. A species of snake, Atractus bocki, is named in his honor.
Selected works
Selected works
• Descriptions of two new Species of Shells from China and Japan (1878). • List of Land and Freshwater Shells collected in Sumatra and Borneo, with Descriptions of new Species (1881). * *
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The Norwegian explorer Carl Bock.
Hans Christian Olsen · Verdens Gang, No. 145, December 9, 1882.
The Norwegian explorer Carl Bock travelled through Thailand in 1881 with the support of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). This map shows his route from Bangkok to Chiang Saen (Kiang-Tsen). From the book Temples and elephants: The narrative of a journey of exploration through upper Siam and Lao. Published in 1884.
Carl Bock (1849-1932), Edward Weller (cartographer) (1819–1884) · Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
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- 1.Store norske leksikon. Carl Alfred Bock.
- 2.Trustees of the British Museum. Carl Alfred Bock (Biographical details).
- 3.Sjon Hauser. Welcome to Lampang and the North of Thailand. sjonhauser.nl.
- 4.Henning Siverts. Carl Bock, Oppdagelsesreisende, Diplomat, Naturforsker. Norsk biografisk leksikon.
- 5.Carl Bock Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 11 October 2013
- 6.Collection by: Carl Alfred Bock The British Museum collection database
- 7.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Bock", p. 28).
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