Vilhelm Storm (28 September 1835 – 19 May 1913) was a Norwegian zoologist. He was born in

Arendal Arendal () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder counties of Norway, county in southeastern Norway. Arendal belongs to the Districts of Norway, region of Southern Norway, Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the munici ...

to priest Frederik Elias Storm and Emilie Fredrikke Cathrine Rønne. He was a brother of Martin Luther Storm and Thora Storm, and a cousin of

Johan Storm Johan Fredrik Breda Storm (24 November 1836 – 26 October 1920) was a Norwegian professor, linguist and philologist. He is known for his development of the Norvegia transcription. Biography Johan Storm was born at Lom in Gudbrandsdalen. Hi ...

and

Gustav Storm Gustav Storm (18 June 1845 – 23 February 1903) was a Norwegian historian, a professor at the Royal Frederick University in Christiania from 1877. He was a driving force in the research of Scandinavian history and literature of the Middle ...

. He was appointed as conservator-restorer at the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

for more than fifty years. He is particularly known for his study of marine animals in

Trondheimsfjorden The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from the municipality of Ørland ...

Selected works

*'' Veiledning i Throndhjems Omegns Flora '' (1870) *'' Trondhjems Omegns Fugle '' (1881) *'' Throndhjemsfjordens Fiske '' (1884)

References

1835 births 1913 deaths People from Arendal 19th-century Norwegian zoologists Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{Norway-academic-bio-stub