Johan Gustaf Hjalmar Kinberg (13 May 1820 – 29 August 1908) was a Swedish zoologist, physician and veterinarian who was born in Grönby, near
Trelleborg
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, Skåne County and who died in St. Matthew's Parish,
Stockholm
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.
Family
Hjalmar Kinberg's father was a rural dean, as was his grandfather, . His mother, Margareta Lovisa Schlyter, was the sister of Professor
Carl Johan Schlyter
Carl Johan Schlyter (29 January 1795 – 29 December 1888) was a Swedish jurist and law publisher. He is known for publishing scholarly editions of the medieval Swedish laws in 13 volumes, a process which took over 50 years.
Biography
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, a noted Swedish lawyer and academic. Kinberg married twice, first, in 1854, to Helena Stockenberg (1831–1858). After the death of his first wife, he married again in 1859 to Aurore Hammarskjöld. He had two children: Arvid Gustaf Kinberg who was born in 1860 and Gottfrid Hilding Kinberg who was born in 1874. He is the great-great-grandfather of
Anna Kinberg Batra
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Leader of the Opposition
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in Sweden.
Career
Kinberg enrolled at the
University of Lund
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Danish army
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in
Schleswig
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zoologist
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on its circumnavigation of the world in 1851–1853. On his return he was appointed
prosector
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and anatomy lecturer at the
Karolinska Institute
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. From 1854 he was appointed temporary professor at the ''Veterinärinrättningen i Skara'' (which became the Swedish Veterinary Institute in 1867), becoming an acting professor from 1856 and full professor from 1859 until 1888. He also acted as a director there 1856 to 1862 and 1872–1886. He was a founding member of the Swedish Veterinary Association and its first chairman.
Kinberg submitted an award-winning zoological thesis to the
University of Uppsala
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The university rose to significance during ...
in 1863, ''Synopsis suturarum et epiphysium''. He also published a number of papers on new species of Annelida collected on the ''Eugenie'' expedition between 1865 and 1867 which were reissued posthumously in
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...
as a single volume published in 1910.Kinberg JGH (1910) Kongliga svenska fregatten Eugenies resa omkring jorden under befäl af C. A. Virgin åren 1851-1853. Vetenskapliga iakttagelser. II, Zoologi. 3 Annulater. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademien. He also published papers in Swedish on veterinary medicine in 1863 and 1872, the skeletal anatomy of mammals in 1869 and the dentition of pigs in 1875. He also worked on ''Svenska foglarna'', a book on Swedish
ornithology
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, with Peter Åkerlund and Carl Jacob Sundevall which was published between 1856 and 1886 and he was the author of the 1880 ''Eddas Naturhistoria''.