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Nils Svedelius

Nils Svedelius

Swedish botanist (1873–1960)

Prof Nils Eberhard Svedelius ForMemRS HFRSE (1873–1960) was a Swedish botanist. He was an expert on marine algae.

Nils Svedelius

Biography

He was born in Stockholm on 5 August 1873 the second son of Carl Svedelius LLD (1861-1951),[1] a senior judge in the Supreme Court of Justice, and his wife, Ebba Katarina Skytte, from the family of Skytte of Satra. In 1914 he married Lisa Thegerstrom (d.1955). He died on 2 August 1960.[2]

Career

He studied Botany at Uppsala University under Prof Frans Reinhold Kjellman, gaining his first degree in 1895 and second in 1900. He began lecturing at the university after defending his doctoral thesis, Studies in the marine algae of the Baltic Sea, in 1901.[3]

He won a travelling scholarship and spent the academic year 1902/3 in Ceylon, studying marine algae mainly in the Galle region.[4] He also visited Singapore and Java.

He remained at Uppsala for his entire career, becoming professor in 1914 and retiring in 1938.[3]

Honours

In 1944 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society.[2] In 1955 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[5]

Publications

References

  1. [1]
    "Carl Svedelius".
  2. [2]
    Skottsberg, Carl Johan Fredrik (1961). "Nils Eberhard Svedelius, 1873-1960". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7. The Royal Society: 294–312. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1961.0023. ISSN 0080-4606.
  3. [3]
    Wynne, Michael J. (2005). "Phycological Trailblazer No. 22 - Nils Svedelius". The Phycological Newsletter. 41 (1): 4–7. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  4. [4]
    Durairatnam, M. (1961). Contribution to the study of the marine algae of Ceylon (PDF). Fisheries Research Station. OCLC 9584592.
  5. [5]
    Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
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