| Per Brinck | |
| Birth Name: | Per Simon Valdemar Brinck |
| Birth Date: | 4 September 1919 |
| Death Date: | 6 October 2013 |
| Nationality: | Swedish |
Per Simon Valdemar Brinck (4 September 1919 – 6 October 2013) was a Swedish zoologist.
Brinck began his career as a veterinarian but wrote a thesis on Plecoptera and later became a worldwide authority on Gyrinidae. He travelled extensively to Africa and Southeast Asia, among others co-publishing the fifteen-volume South African Animal Life between 1955 and 1973. He served as a professor of zoology at the Lund University from 1958 to 1986.[1] [2] Brinck edited the journal Oikos from 1965 to 1989, and since 2007 the journal has given out the Per Brinck Oikos Award.
Brinck was a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1974[2] and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He also was a Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society.[3]
The genera Perbrinckia and Perbrinckiella have been named after him.