Gerhard Holm

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Edvard Johan Gerhard Holm (born April 19, 1853 in Stockholm , † June 21, 1926 in Stocksund , Stockholm County ) was a Swedish geologist and paleontologist .

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Holm moved to Uppsala University in 1872 and received his doctorate there in 1883 in mineralogy and geology. As early as 1875 he worked for the Swedish geology authority ( Sveriges geologiska undersökning ) and described a large number of trilobites , graptolites , cephalopods and hyolithids . One of his larger works on the morphology of the sea ​​scorpion Eurypterus tetragonophthalmus from 1898 (then described as Eurypterus fischeri ) is still one of the most important works in the field of the morphology of sea scorpions.

In 1901 he was appointed professor and director of the palaeozoological department of the Natural History Museum ( Naturhistoriska riksmuseet ) in Stockholm, which he held until 1922. Also in 1901 he was appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm and in 1915 a member of the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund . Since 1910 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

He was married to Olivia Palmquist, with whom he had two children, Gea (married the geographer Sten De Geer in 1912 ) and Ella.

Fonts (selection)

  • De svenska arterna af trilobitslägeet Illaenus Dalman , 1883
  • On the internal organization of some Silurian cephalopods , 1885
  • Om tvenne Gyroceras-formed böjda Endoceras-arter , 1892
  • About the organization of the Eurypterus Fischeri Eichw. , 1898

literature

  • Carl Wiman: Kungliga vetenskapsakademiens årsbok number 25, 1927.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b R. Friedländer & Sohn (ed.): Naturae novitates . Bibliography of new phenomena from all countries in the field of natural history and the exact sciences. Volume XXIII. 1901. Berlin R. Friedländer & Sohn, s. 619.
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Edvard Johan Gerhard Holm. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 3, 2015 (Russian).

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personal data
SURNAME Holm, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holm, Edvard Johan Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1926
Place of death Stocksund , Stockholm County