Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff
Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff (March 25, 1842 – October 24, 1883) was a Danish philologist who worked in the Andaman penal colony in India, in charge of the Nicobar Islands, where he was shot dead by a convict. He studied the languages of Andaman and Nicobar tribes and collected numerous specimens of fauna and flora. The Andaman masked owl ("Tyto deroepstorffi") was named after him by Hume.
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Andaman penal colony
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Andaman masked owl
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Hume
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Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff
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1842-03-25T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
March 25, 1842
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1883-10-24T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
October 24, 1883
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