Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf ( Garda on Gotland 2 November 1857 –

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5 January 1921) was a Swedish marine zoologist. Appellöf matriculated at

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in 1877, earned his PhD in 1886 and became a

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of zoology in 1887. In 1889 he received the position of conservator at the Museum of Bergen in Bergen, Norway. He was appointed professor of comparative anatomy in Uppsala in 1910. With a donation from the sawmill magnate Bünsow, Appellöf established the Klubban Biological Station of Uppsala University, a station for the study of marine biology located on the west coast of Sweden. In 1919 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1920 of the

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. He made several important contributions to the knowledge of cephalopods.

Partial bibliography

*"Die schalen von Sepia, Spirula und Nautilus, Studien über ihren Bau und Wachsthum" (in: ''Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar'', SSN 0023-5377 N.F., 25:7) *"Teuthologische beiträge", 1–4 (1889–1892, in: ''Bergens museums aarsberetning och aarbog'') *"Cephalopoden von Ternate" (in: ''Abhandlung der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft'', Bd 24, H. 4, 1898) *"Über das vorkommen innerer Schalen bei Octopoda" (in: ''Bergens Museums Aarbog'' 1899). *"Über einige Resultate der Kreuzbefruchtung bei Knochenfischen" (''Bergens Museums Aarbog'', 1894–95) *"Zur Kenntnis der Edvardsien" (''Bergens Museums Aarbog'', 1891) *"Studien über Actinien-Entwicklung" (''Bergens Museums Aarbog'', 1900. N:o 1, 1900). *"Untersuchungen über den Hummer: mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seines Auftretens an den Norwegischen Küsten" (in: ''Bergens Museums Skrifter'', SSN 0365-981X 8; N.R., 1:1, 1909; awarded the

Joachim Friele Joachim (; ''Yəhōyāqīm'', "he whom Yahweh has set up"; ; ) was, according to Christian tradition, the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Biblical apocryphal ...

Gold Medal). {{DEFAULTSORT:Appellof, Adolf 19th-century Swedish zoologists 1857 births 1921 deaths Swedish marine biologists Marine zoologists People from Gotland