Erik Stensiö

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Erik Helge Osvald Stensiö (born October 2, 1891 in Stensjö by , parish Döderhult (today to Oskarshamn , Kalmar län ), † January 11, 1984 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish paleozoologist .

Life

Stensiö was born Erik Andersson in the Swedish village of Stensiö by. He later took the name of his place of birth. In the scientific literature he is also known by a combination of both names ( Erik Andersson Stensiö or Erik A. Stensiö ).

Stensiö received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1921 . In the same year he took up a teaching position there and in 1923 became professor and curator of the department of zoopalaeontology (later palaeozoology) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm ; a position he would hold until his retirement in 1959.

Stensiö specialized in the anatomy and evolution of the “lower” vertebrates , especially the cyclostomata and transitional forms between bony fish and amphibians . His studies of the Placodermi showed that they are related to the modern day sharks . His first major work was Triassic fishes from Spitzbergen , the first part of which appeared in Vienna in 1921 and the second in Stockholm in 1925 . This work resulted from material that he had collected during several expeditions to Spitsbergen in 1912, 1913, 1915 and 1916.

He founded the so-called Stockholm School of Paleozoology, which was also represented by Erik Jarvik and Tor Ørvig , his successors as heads of the department.

Stensiö had been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1927 . In 1929 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1930 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1936 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 1937 a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1946 it was accepted as a foreign member of the Royal Society . In 1926 he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal and in 1953 the Wollaston Medal . In 1957 he received the Linné Medal and the next year the Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society of London . In 1956 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society and in 1955 the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology .

Fonts

  • Some remarks on the systematic position of Saurichthys mougeoti AGASSIZ. In: Senckenbergiana, I, 6, Frankfurt a. M. 1919, pp. 177-181

literature

  • Nordisk familjebok . 2nd Edition. tape 38 ( online version ).
  • C. Patterson: Erik Helge Osvald Stensiö . In: Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society . tape 35 , 1990, pp. 363-380 , doi : 10.1098 / rsbm.1990.0017 .
  • Richard Dehm : Erik Stensiö October 2, 1891-11 January 1984. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences , Yearbook 1984, Munich 1984, pp. 256–258.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Erik Helge Osvald Stensiö. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed February 24, 2016 (Russian).
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Erik Stensiö
  4. ^ Erik Stensiö obituary in the 1985 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
personal data
SURNAME Stensiö, Erik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andersson, Erik (maiden name); Stensiö, Erik Andersson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Stensiö by, parish Döderhult, today to Oskarshamn , Kalmar län
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1984
Place of death Stockholm