Oluf Winge

Gustav Oluf Bang Winge was a Danish zoologist.

Biography

The older brother of the zoologist Herluf Winge, Oluf also had since childhood a great interest in animals. He took in 1881 the title of "Magisterkonferens" in Natural History and in 1883 became assistant at the University of [Copenhagen Zoological Museum|Zoologisk Museum]. He worked mainly with ornithology, such as the birds recovered from the lighthouses in Denmark and his most important work, "Fugle fra Knoglehuler i Brasilien", on the fossil birds discovered in the caves in of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil by his compatriot paleontologist Peter [Wilhelm Lund].
He died in 1889, 33 years old, from an "incurable breast suffering".
The Pleistocene condor genus Wingegyps is named after him.