Pieter Bleeker

Pieter Bleeker was a male zoologist, ichthyologist, and physician from the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Born in Zaandam on 10 July 1819, he held a doctorate and served as a director at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, which also employed him. He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Bleeker authored 23 works, including *Visschen van de Natoena-eilanden*, *Vierde bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van de Kokos-eilanden*, *Tweede bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van Halmaheiro (Gilolo)*, *Siluroideorum bataviensium conspectus diagnosticus*, and *Bijdrage tot de kennis der visschen met doolhofvormige kieuwen van den Soenda-Molukschen Archipel*. His author citation in zoology is Bleeker. He died in The Hague on 24 January 1878. Collection items from his work are held at the Natural History Museum and the National Museum of Natural History.