George Albert Boulenger

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George Boulenger

George Albert Boulenger (born 19 October 1858 in Brussels, France, 23 November 1937 in Saint-Malo) is a British zoologist of Belgian descent.

He was the only son of Gustav Boulenger, a Belgian notary and Juliette Piérart de Valenciennes. In 1876 he graduated from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and for some time worked at the Natural History Museum in Brussels as an assistant to a naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles and fish. In 1880 he was invited to work in a similar but much larger and more prestigious museum in London where he dealt with the cataloging of amphibians. Working at the National Museum meant that he was a state employee and therefore had to accept British citizenship. In 1882 he became the first assistant in the Department of Zoology and remained until his retirement in 1920.

By 1921, Boulenger had published 877 papers covering a total of over 5,000 pages, as well as 19 monographs on fish, amphibians and reptiles. He described 1096 species of fish, 872 species of reptiles and 556 species of amphibians. He was a member of the American Association of Ichthyologists and an honorary member of the American Herpetological Society.

In 1937, he was awarded the Leopold Order. Authoritative control (person):

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