Erling Sivertsen

Erling Sivertsen (born December 21, 1904 in Tromsø , † November 16, 1989 in Trondheim ) was a carcinologist and zoologist from Norway .

After completing his studies, he began his scientific work in his hometown at the Tromsø Museum in 1923, and in 1938 he moved to Trondheim as a curator at the Natural History Museum of the Royal Society of Sciences ( Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab ), where he later became director. At the same time he received a professorship at the Norwegian Teachers College. In 1935 he was a participant in a Norwegian expedition to eastern Greenland and in 1937/38 on an expedition to the South Atlantic . There he was the first zoologist to systematically research the marine world of Tristan da Cunha in the Antarctic influence area and to explore the life cycle of the Tristan lobster ( Jasus tristani ).

In the course of his life, various species were named after him because of his numerous students:

• Hypodontolaimus sivertseni , Allgen, 1951, from the class of nematodes ( Nematoda )
• Pycnogonum sivertseni , Stock, 1955 from the class of woodlice spiders ( Pycnogonida ).
• Thoracostoma sivertseni , Allgén, 1957, from the Kurole family ( Leptosomatidae )
• Zalutschia sivertseni , AAGAARD, 1979

He gave other names himself, pointing the way, after he re-examined and classified the skulls and exhibits collected by the Norwegian expedition ship MK Norvegia between 1928 and 1929 in the Oslo Museum .

• Zalophus wollebaeki , 1953, Galápagos sea lions from the ear seal family( Otariidae )

Works (selection)

• Erling Sivertsen: On the Biology of the Harp Seal Phoca Groenlandica Erxl, Investigations carried out in the White sea 1925-1937 , with a Norwegian preface by the Sealing commission. With 41 figures in the text and 11 plates, I kommisjon hos Jacob Dybwad: Oslo 1941
• Erling Sivertsen: Fishes of Tristan da Cunha: with remarks on age and growth based on scale readings, I kommisjon hos Jacob Dybwad: Oslo 1945
• Erling Sivertsen: A survey of the eared seals (family Otariidae) with remarks on the Antarctic seals collected by M / K "Norvegia" in 1928-1929, I kommisjon hos Jacob Dybwad: Oslo 1954
• Erling Sivertsen, LB Holthuis: The Marine Isopod Crustacea of ​​the Tristan Da Cunha Archipelago , the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, the Museum, 1980, ISBN 8-27126-211-4

Web links

• Group photo with Erling Sivertsen (No. 9) from 1946

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nils Andreas Ytreberg: Tromsø bys historie: Bd. 1-3, Tell: Oslo 1946, p. 227.
2. ↑ Forhandlinger - Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, Kongelige Norske videnskabers selskab, 1991, p. 35
3. ↑ Illustrated expedition report (norwegian) ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Bernadette Hince, The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English , Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing; [Melbourne, Vic]: Museum of Victoria, 2000, p. 357, ISBN 0-95774-711-X and archive link ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Edvard Bull: Norsk biografisk leksikon. 1881-1932, H. Aschehoug 1983, p. 339; Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt , Alan Houghton Brodrick: Galapagos: The Noah's Ark of the Pacific , Doubleday: London 1961, p. 27.