Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert


Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert, was a Danish arachnologist and editor of the first series of Entomologiske Meddelelser.
Meinert initially studied theology. Later he was a pupil of Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte and he too became Inspektor at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen. Meinert specialised in comparative anatomy and histology mainly of Malacostraca and Pycnogonida.

Works

  • Symbolæ ad monographiam Cymotharum Crustaceorum Isopodum familiæ with Schiødte
  • Fluernes munddele trophi dipterorumKjobenhavn: H. Hagerups boghandel.
  • Crustacea malacostraca. Det Videnskabelige Udbytte af Kanonbaaden "Hauchs" Togter 3: 147–230 Pycnogonida: af Fr. Meinert. Bianco Luno
Species named for him are Clypeoniscus meinerti Giard & Bonnier, 1895, Laothoes meinerti Boeck, 1871, Paralaophonte meinerti and Neosarmatium meinerti.