Gustaf Lindström

Gustaf Lindström

Gustaf Lindström (born August 27, 1829 in Visby , † May 16, 1901 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish zoologist and paleontologist .

Lindström, whose father was Crown Vogt on Gotland, studied from 1848 at Uppsala University , where he received his doctorate in 1854 (Dr. phil.). In 1855 he became an assistant in zoology in Uppsala. In 1856 he became a teacher at the Scholars and Apologist School in Visby and in 1858 adjunct at the higher elementary teacher college in Visby. In 1876 he became professor and curator for paleontology (head of the palaeontological department) at the Rijksmuseum in Stockholm as the successor to Nils Peter Angelin (1805–1876).

After hearing a lecture by Sven Lovén in Stockholm, he studied invertebrates and later fish in the Baltic Sea. As a paleontologist he researched the Silurian of Gotland , for example fish, corals, brachiopods , cephalopods, trilobites, crustaceans and sea scorpions. His description of what was believed to be the first air-breathing fossil, the scorpion Palaeophoneus nuncius (with Tamerlan Thorell ), caused a stir at the time . His last work on the visual organs of trilobites appeared in 1901.

In 1895 he received the Murchison Medal . In 1885 he became a member of the Geological Society of London , in 1886 the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences, 1898 the Prussian Academy of Sciences and in the same year honorary member of the Belgian Geological Society.

He also dealt with the history of Gotland. He traveled a lot, especially to Italy. In 1894 he discovered the mineral elpidite in Greenland . Lindström published the Swedish edition of the textbook of geology by Charles Lyell ( Geologiens Grounds , 1857, 2nd edition 1859).

In 1865 Lindström described the fossils from the Jura and Triassic that were collected on the Swedish expedition to Svalbard . With Sven Lovén he edited the Iconographia Crinoideorum by Angelin and he edited the Fragmenta Silurica by Angelin, whereby he wrote the latter work mainly himself.

Fonts

• Contribution to the knowledge of the invertebrate fauna of the Baltic Sea, 1855
• Across Gotland's Fish, 1867
• Investigations into Gotland's Middle Ages, 2 volumes, 1892, 1895
• with Nils Peter Angelin, Carl Henrik Wegelin: Fragmenta Silurica, Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm 1880, Archive , doi : 10.5962 / bhl.title.63278
• On the Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland, Stockholm 1884, Archive , doi : 10.5962 / bhl.title.11879
• Remarks on the Heliolitidae, Stockholm 1899, Archives
• with Thorell: On a silurian scorpion from Gotland, 1885
• List of the Silurian crustaceans of Gotland, 1885
• List of the fossils of the Upper Silurian formation of Gotland 1885, doi : 10.5962 / bhl.title.14070
• On remains of a Cyathaspis from the silurian strata of Gotland, 1895
• Upper Silurian corals from Tsau-Tien
• The Ascoceratidæ and Lituitidæ of the Upper Silurian Formation of Gotland, 1890
• Researches on the visual organs of trilobites, 1901

literature

• Nekrolog in the Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, year 1901, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1901, p. 527, archive