August Wilhelm Malm (23 July 1821 – 5 March 1882) was a

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and

malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...

. He was the first Director of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum.

Biography

August Wilhelm Malm was born in

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. Malm was generally self-taught without an academic degree. In the years 1838–1839, he was student and assistant of Sven Nilsson (1787–1883), professor of Natural History at

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(1801–1875) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, zoological department in Stockholm. He studied zoology in Copenhagen during 1843–44. From 1848, he was curator of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (''Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum''). From 1852, he was a teacher of zoology at Gothenburg high school. From 1856-67, he is also the supervisor of

Gothenburg and Bohus County Gothenburg and Bohus County ( sv, Göteborgs och Bohus län) was a county of Sweden until 1997, when it was merged with Skaraborg County and Älvsborg County to form Västra Götaland County. The county was named after the city of Gothenburg a ...

Fisheries. When the

Gothenburg Museum The Museum of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs stadsmuseum) is a local history museum located in the city centre of Gothenburg in western Sweden. It is located in the East India House ( sv, Ostindiska huset), originally built as the Swedish East Indi ...

was founded in 1861, the founding group included August Malm together with newspaper publisher Sven Adolf Hedlund (1821–1900) and architect Victor von Gegerfelt (1817-1915). In 1862, Gothenburg Natural History Museum was incorporated into the Gothenburg Museum.

Selected works

*1855 - ''Om Svenska landt- och söttvattens mollusker, med särskilt afseende på de arter och former, som förkomma i grannskapet af Christianstad (C) och Göteborg (G)'' *1866
''Om den i Bohuslän strandade hvalen''
*1866
''Några blad om hvaldjur i allmänhet och Balænoptera Carolinæ i synnerhet''
* 1871
''Hvaldjur i Sveriges museer, år 1869''
* 1877
''Göteborg och Bohusläns fauna, Ryggradsdjvren''

References

Other sources

''Göteborgs etnografiska museum''
(Göteborg: Årstryck. 1983) * Grönberg, Cecilia; Magnusson, Jonas ''Leviatan från Göteborg'' (Göteborg: Glänta. 2002 )

External links

Portrait
Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum website
1821 births 1882 deaths Swedish entomologists Swedish malacologists 19th-century Swedish zoologists People from Gothenburg {{entomologist-stub