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Carl Julian (von) Graba, German lawyer and ornithologist who visited and studied the Faroe Islands (died 1874)
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Carl Julian (von) Graba
German lawyer and ornithologist (1799–1874)
Carl Julian (von) Graba was a German lawyer and Royal Danish judicial councillor, and was also a keen ornithologist and one of the first modern researchers to visit and study the Faroe Islands, where he described the local puffin which was subsequently named Fratercula arctica…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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