Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (20 May 1785 – 23 December 1874) was a
Swedish
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University of Lund
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion Anders Jahan Retzius
Anders Jahan Retzius (3 October 1742 – 6 October 1821) was a Swedish chemist, botanist and entomologist.
Biography
Born in Kristianstad, he matriculated at Lund University in 1758, where he graduated as a filosofie magister in 1766. He also ...
. He received the title of professor in 1822 and succeeded
Carl Adolph Agardh
Carl Adolph Agardh (23 January 1785 in Båstad, Sweden – 28 January 1859 in Karlstad) was a Swedish botanist specializing in algae, who was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad.
Biography
In 1807 he was appointed teacher of mathemat ...
as professor of
botany
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and practical economy in 1836, retiring as emeritus in 1853. In 1831, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
He is best known as an entomologist. His collections of
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Zoological
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Museum of the
University of Lund
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion Anders Gustaf Dahlbom.
Selected works
*1810-1812 ''Dissertatio de Fæcundatione Plantarum''
*1821 ''Orthoptera Sueciae disposita et descripta''. Lundae (Lund),132 pp.
*1828 ''Fauna Insectorum Lapponica''
*1835 ''Monographia Scatophagarum Scandinaviæ''
*1837 Conspectus familiarum, generum et specierum Dipterorum, in Fauna insectorum Lapponica descriptorum. ''Isis'' ( Oken's)
*1838 ''Conspectus plantarum in horto botanico et plantatione Universitatis'' Typis excudit Carolus Fr. Berling
*1838-1840 ''Insecta Lapponica''. L. Voss, Lipsiae (Leipzig),1139 pp.
*1842-1854. ''Diptera Scandinaviae disposita et descripta''. Lundbergiana, Lundae (Lund),6 volumes.
*1855. ''Diptera Scandinaviae disposita et descripta''. Tomus duodecimus seu supplementum tertium, continens addenda, corrigenda & emendanda tomis undecim prioribus. Officina Lundbergiana, Lundae (Lund)
References
* Alexander Henry Haliday, Recent works on the Diptera of Northern Europe. Supplementary Notie. Zetterstedt, Diptera Scandinaviae. TomXII 8 vo. Lundae 1855. Stenhammar, Copromyzinae Scandinaviae 8 vo. Ppp. 184 Holmiae 1855. ''Nat. Hist. Rev''. (Proc) 3: 32, 33. Significant critical review of Zetterstedt's work on Diptera. See Talk:Francis Walker (entomologist)
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