Eltio Alegondas Forsten

Eltio Alegondas Forsten (12 July 1811, Middelburg – 1843, Ambon Island) was a Dutch naturalist.[1]

He studied medicine at Leiden, obtaining his degree in 1836 with a thesis on Cedrela febrifuga, titled "Dissertatio botanico-pharmaceutico-medica inauguralis de cedrela febrifuga".[2] In 1838 he became a member of the Natuurkundige Commissie for the Dutch East Indies, where he would spend the next several years collecting zoological and botanical specimens (Java, Sulawesi, Ternate, Ambon).[3]

Eponymy (birds and reptiles)

Forsten's cat snake, Boiga forsteni.[4]
Forsten's lorikeet, Trichoglossus forsteni.
Forsten's megapode, Megapodius freycinet.
Forsten's pointed snake, Rabdion forsteni.[4]
Forsten's tortoise, Indotestudo forstenii.[4]
Purple-bearded bee-eater, Meropogon forsteni.[5]

References

Levensberichten van Zeeuwen, Volume 1 by Frederik Nagtglas, Pieter de la Rue
Google Books Dissertatio botanico-pharmaceutico-medica inauguralis de cedrela febrifuga
Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Sources: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors & Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II.
The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
The Eponym Dictionary of Birds by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson

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[1] Levensberichten van Zeeuwen, Volume 1 by Frederik Nagtglas, Pieter de la Rue

[2] Google Books Dissertatio botanico-pharmaceutico-medica inauguralis de cedrela febrifuga

[3] Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Sources: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors & Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II.

[Beolens-4] The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson

[5] The Eponym Dictionary of Birds by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson