Gunnar Erdtman

Otto Gunnar Elias Erdtman (born November 18, 1897 in Bjurvik, † 1973 ) was a Swedish pioneer of palynology and botanist. His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is " Erdtman ".

He was the son of the landscape painter Elias Erdtman . In 1903 he went to Stockholm and in 1915 began to study botany with Gustaf Lagerheim and Otto Rosenberg. In 1920 he received his doctorate ( pollen analysis of peat bogs and marine sediments in south-west Sweden, Arkiv för Botany, Volume 17, 1921). Under the direction of Lennart von Post , he became a pollen analyst at the Swedish geological survey and conducted field studies in various European countries in the 1920s. In 1930/31 he was on a Rockefeller scholarship in the USA and Canada. After that he worked as a teacher for a while. In 1948 he became head of the newly established Swedish state pollen analysis laboratory, which he headed until 1971. In 1954 he received the title of professor.

In 1950 he organized the first International Palynological Conference at the International Botanical Congress in Stockholm and chaired the Palynological Conference at the International Botanical Congress 1954 in Paris.

Fonts

• Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy, 4 volumes, Stockholm, Almkvist & Wiksell, Waltham (Massachusetts), Chronica Botanica, 1952–1971
• Introduction till palynologin, Stockholm 1963
• Handbook of palynology. Morphology, taxonomy, ecology. An introduction to the study of pollen grains and spores, Copenhagen, Munksgaard 1969
• with B. Berglund, J. Praglowski: Introduction to scandinavian pollen flora, 2 volumes, Stockholm, Almkvist & Wiksell, 1961, 1963

literature

• Siwert Nilsson, Joseph Praglowski: Professor Gunnar Erdtman 1897-1973 , Grana, Volume 17, 1978, p. 1

Web links

• Knut Faegri: In Memoriam O. Gunnar E. Erdtman. AASP - the Palynological Society, accessed January 29, 2013 .