Teodor Odhner Explained

Teodor Odhner
Birth Date:	February 25, 1879
Birth Place:	Lund, Sweden
Death Place:	Stockholm, Sweden
Burial Place:	Northern Cemetery, Solna, Sweden^[1]
Nationality:	Swedish
Occupation:	Zoologist
Children:	Clas-Erik Odhner
Mother:	Emma Hedvig Charlotta Knos
Father:	Clas Theodor Odhner

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.

Bibliography

• 1905: "Die Trematoden des arktischen Gebietes" (The Trematoda of the Arctic Region). Fauna Arctica 4: 289–372.
• 1907: "Zur Anatomie der Didymozoen: ein getrenntgeschlechtlicher Trematode mit rudimentarem Hermaphroditismus" (The Anatomy of the Didymozooidea: A Gender-Specific Trematode with Rudimentary Hermaphroditism). In: Zoologiska studier tillägnade professor T. Tullberg på hans 65-års dag, pp. 309–342. Uppsala: Naturvetenskapliga studentsallskapet i Uppsala.
• 1910: Nordostafrikanische Trematoden: grösstenteils vom Weissen Nil (von der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition gesammelt) (Northeast African Trematoda: Mostly from the White Nile, Collected by the Swedish Zoological Expedition). Uppsala: K.W. Appelbergs Boktryckeri.
• 1912: "Zum natürlichen System der digenen Trematoden" (The Natural System of the Digene Trematoda). Zoologischer Anzeiger 41: 54–71.
• 1923: "Marine Crustacea Podophthalmata aus Angola und Südafrika gesammelt von H. Skoog 1912" (Marine Crustacea Podophthalmata from Angola and South Africa Collected by Hilmer Skoog in 1912). Göteborgs kungl. vetenskaps-och vitterhets-samhälles handlingar 27: 1–39.
• 1925: Monographierte Gattungen der Krabbenfamilie Xanthidae (Monographed Genera of the Crab Family Xanthidae). Göteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag.

Notes and References

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