Rasmus Carl Stæger

Rasmus Carl Stæger (1800 to 1875) was a Danish attorney, civil servant and politician who was also an entomologist. Born and died in Copenhagen, he took his legal degree in 1817. Over his career he served as a judge, an elected official and a financial adviser to the Danish government, working in the Bureau of Foreign Payments, the National Debt Office and the Council of Justice. From 1858 to 1871 he sat on the Frederiksberg Parish Council, serving as deputy chairman from 1859 to 1862 and then as mayor of Frederiksberg until 1871. Alongside his legal and public career he studied flies, concentrating on the families Dolichopodidae, Sepsidae and Chironomidae, and his Diptera collection is held by the Natural History Museum of Denmark.