Teodor Odhner
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Teodor Odhner | |
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| Born | February 25, 1879 |
| Died | October 29, 1928 (aged 49) |
| Burial place | Northern Cemetery, Solna, Sweden[1] |
| Occupation | Zoologist |
| Children | Clas-Erik Odhner |
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Nils Johan Teodor Odhner (February 25, 1879 – October 29, 1928)[2] was a Swedish zoologist. Odhner was born in Lund, Sweden.[3] He was the son of the historian and archivist Clas Theodor Odhner[4] and the father of the agronomist Clas-Erik Odhner.
Odhner became an associate professor of zoology at Uppsala University in 1905,[4] a professor of zoology at the University of Oslo in 1914, a professor and curator of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm in the invertebrate department in 1918,[5] and also director of the Stockholm Workers' Institute (Stockholms arbetareinstitut) in 1922.[3][5]
Odhner participated in Gustaf Kolthoff's zoological expeditions to Svalbard and eastern Greenland in 1900, and in Leonard Jägerskiöld expedition to the White Nile in 1901.[3][5] He also conducted zoological studies at the stations in Trieste and Naples.[5] He made several contributions to the literature on the anatomy and classification of the flukes, and in 1925 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,[5] where he served as vice secretary from 1923 to 1928.
