Teodor Odhner

Teodor Odhner
Born(1879-02-25)February 25, 1879
Lund, Sweden
DiedOctober 29, 1928(1928-10-29) (aged 49)
Stockholm, Sweden
Burial placeNorthern Cemetery, Solna, Sweden[1]
NationalitySwedish
OccupationZoologist
ChildrenClas-Erik Odhner
Parents

Nils Johan Teodor Odhner (February 25, 1879 – October 29, 1928)[2] was a Swedish zoologist. Odhner was born in Lund, Sweden.[3] He was the son of the historian and archivist Clas Theodor Odhner[4] and the father of the agronomist Clas-Erik Odhner.

Odhner became an associate professor of zoology at Uppsala University in 1905,[4] a professor of zoology at the University of Oslo in 1914, a professor and curator of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm in the invertebrate department in 1918,[5] and also director of the Stockholm Workers' Institute (Stockholms arbetareinstitut) in 1922.[3][5]

Odhner participated in Gustaf Kolthoff's zoological expeditions to Svalbard and eastern Greenland in 1900, and in Leonard Jägerskiöld expedition to the White Nile in 1901.[3][5] He also conducted zoological studies at the stations in Trieste and Naples.[5] He made several contributions to the literature on the anatomy and classification of the flukes, and in 1925 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,[5] where he served as vice secretary from 1923 to 1928.

  1. ^ "Odhner, Nils Johan Teodor". Svenska gravar. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  2. ^ Gertz, Otto (1940). Kungl. fysiografiska sällskapet i Lund, 1772-1940: historisk överblick och personförteckningar. Lund: Håkan Ohlssons boktryckeri. p. 184.
  3. ^ a b c Natvig, Leif Reinhardt (1930). "Teodor Odhner" (PDF). Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift. 2: 305–307. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  4. ^ a b Nordisk Familjebok: Konversationslexikon och Realencyklopedi. Volume 20: Norrsken–Paprocki. Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlags aktiebolag. 1914. p. 492. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d e Nordisk Familjebok: Konversationslexikon och Realencyklopedi. Volume 37: Supplement. L–Riksdag. Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlags aktiebolag. 1925. pp. 889–890. Retrieved October 29, 2019.