Cándido Bolívar Pieltain
{{Short description|Spanish naturalist and entomologist}}
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Cándido Luis Bolívar Pieltain (15 April 1897 – 22 November 1976) was a Spanish naturalist and entomologist.{{cite journal |author1=Gomis |first=Alberto |title=Homenaje a Cándido Bolívar (1897-1976) con motivo del centenario de su nacimiento |url=http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/fichero_articulo?codigo=893588&orden=0 |journal=Llull, Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas |publisher= |volume=21 |pages=549-552}}
Biography
He studied in Ciudad Real. When he was 14, his article “Observaciones sobre algunas cuevas del Norte de España y descripción de una nueva especie de ‘Speocharis’” was published in the Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. When he was 17 years old, he went to the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, to study sciences. In 1924, he married Amelia Goyanes and they had six children. He travelled to Italy, Greece, Morocco and the United States.{{citation needed |date=March 2018}}.
After the Spanish Civil War, he moved to Mexico, where he died in 1976.
Publications
- Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Serie zoológica, Anales de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Eos, Ciencia.
- Ciencia. Revista hispano-americana de Ciencias puras y aplicadas. In Mexico.
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Category:20th-century Mexican zoologists
Category:Scientists from Madrid
Category:20th-century Spanish zoologists