Contributions to the knowledge of the fresh-water Entomostraca of New Zealand - no-nb digibok 2009041503004-65

Prof Georg Ossian Sars H

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(20 April 1837 – 9 April 1927) was a

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and freshwater biologist.

Life

Georg Ossian Sars was born on 20 April 1837 in Kinn, Norway (now part of

Flora Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. E ...

), the son of Pastor

Michael Sars Michael Sars (30 August 1805 – 22 October 1869) was a Norwegian theologian and biologist. Biography Sars was born in Bergen, Norway. He studied natural history and theology at Royal Frederick University from 1823 and completed a cand.theol. de ...

and

Maren Sars Maren Cathrine Sars (née Welhaven; 17 August 1811 – 27 December 1898) was a Norwegian socialite. Personal life She was born in Bergen as a daughter of priest Johan Ernst Welhaven (1775–1828) and Else Margrethe Cammermeyer (1785–1853), the ...

; the historian

Ernst Sars Johan Ernst Welhaven Sars (11 October 1835 – 27 January 1917) was a Norwegian professor, historian, author and editor. His main work was ''Udsigt over den norske Historie'', four volumes issued from 1873 to 1891. He co-edited the magazines ...

was his elder brother, and the singer

Eva Nansen Eva Helene Nansen (née Sars; 17 December 1858 – 9 December 1907) was a celebrated Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer. She was also a pioneer of women's skiing. Personal life Born in Christiania (now Oslo), she was a daughter of priest and profes ...

was his younger sister.
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He grew up in

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Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...

, where his father was the local priest. He studied from 1852 to 1854 at

Bergen Cathedral School Bergen Cathedral School (Norwegian: ''Bergen Katedralskole'', Latin: ''Schola Cathedralis Bergensis'', formerly known as Bergens lærdeskole and Bergen latinskole and colloquially known as Katten) is an upper secondary school in Bergen, Norway. Loc ...

, from 1854 at Christiania Cathedral School, and joined the university at Christiana (now the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

) in 1857. He indulged his interest in natural history while studying medicine; having collected

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s in local lakes with

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's works, he discovered new species, and this resulted in his first scientific publication. Georg Ossian Sars had a good memory and excellent drawing skills, and illustrated some of his father's zoological works. Sars was a founding investigator of

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. In 1864, he was commissioned by the Norwegian government to investigate

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around the Norwegian coast. One of his first discoveries was that the

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are

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, that is, they inhabit the open

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. He continued to receive the

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of the government throughout his career. Sars' primary research focus was on

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...

s and their

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. He described many new species in his career, including in his ''

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'', ''An Account of the Crustacea of Norway''. For his achievements, Sars was made a Knight of the

Order of St. Olav The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav ( no, Den Kongelige Norske Sankt Olavs Orden; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after King Olav II ...

in 1892, and elevated to Knight-Commander in 1911. He was further awarded the

Linnean Medal The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and ...

in 1910. Georg Ossian Sars never married, and died on 9 April 1927 in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

. He is remembered in the scientific names of a number of marine

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s, as well as the journal ''

Sarsia ''Sarsia'' is a genus of hydrozoan in the family Corynidae. Species * ''Sarsia angulata'' (Mayer, 1900) * ''Sarsia apicula'' (Murbach & Shearer, 1902) * ''Sarsia bella'' Brinckmann-Voss, 2000 * ''Sarsia brachygaster'' Grönberg, 1898 * ''Sarsia ...

'', the

Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology The Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology is a research establishment located at Bergen in Norway. History Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology was established in April 1997. It is located at the Bergen High Tech ...

and the flagship of the Norwegian research fleet, the ''RV G.O.Sars''.

Publications

* ''An Account of the Crustacea of Norway''. * Sars G. O. (1878)
''Bidrag til kundskaben om norges arktiske fauna. I. Mollusca regonis arcticae Norwegiae. Oversigt over de i norges arktiske region forekommende bløddyr''
Christiania, Brøgger. niversity of Oslo

References

External links

The RV G.O. Sars

Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology

G.O. Sars Open Library

BHL
Online works by G. O. Sars {{DEFAULTSORT:Sars, Georg Ossian 1837 births 1927 deaths 19th-century Norwegian zoologists 20th-century Norwegian zoologists Fisheries scientists Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Marine zoologists Norwegian carcinologists Norwegian marine biologists People educated at Oslo Cathedral School People educated at the Bergen Cathedral School University of Oslo alumni University of Oslo faculty Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala