Christian Peder Bianco Boeck

Christian Peder Bianco Boeck (September 5, 1798 – July 11, 1877) was a Norwegian medical doctor, zoologist, botanist and mountaineer.

In 1820, he made a botanically motivated expedition to Jotunheimen, with a launch point from the farm of Skrebergo in Øystre Slidre, where he had studied years before.

On several journeys abroad, sometimes accompanied by Keilhau, Boeck visited many scientific institutions and got in touch with leading geologists and biologists, including paleontologist Alexandre Brongniart.

He joined in founding Den physiographiske Forening (later the Academy of Science in Oslo) and Lægeforeningen i Kristiania (later the Medical Society), and he was also for many years the editor of the periodical Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne.

In his first paper on trilobites (1827), Boeck presents a study of the group and deals with a number of foreign species which he personally had examined in Central European museum collections.