Jan Bergström

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Jan Bergström (* 1938 in Halmstad ; † November 17, 2012 in Täby ) was a Swedish paleontologist and geologist.

Life

Bergström studied geology, geography, botany, zoology and paleontology at Lund University from 1958 , where he received his doctorate in 1973 on trilobites (Organization, life, and systematics of trilobites). His dissertation brought him international attention. After that he taught in Lund until 1978 before he went to the Swedish geological survey (Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, SGU) as a state geologist. From 1989 he was professor and head of the palaeozoology department at the Natural History Museum in Stockholm. In 2005 he retired.

He was a specialist in trilobites and fossil arthropods in general and dealt with the geology of Skåne . He also dealt with other Paleozoic marine taxa (such as brachiopods ), with trace fossils, conservation deposits and stratigraphic issues. Most recently, he was particularly concerned with the Chengjiang fauna of the Cambrian and the early development of arthropods.

He also published on archeology and mythology. He wrote around 170 academic essays and over 100 articles in the Swedish National Encyclopedia.

He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1990).

Fonts

  • Organization, Life, and Systematics of Trilobites, Universitätsverlag Lund 1973 (dissertation)
  • with Erik Norling: Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Scania, southern Sweden, Tectonophysics, Volume 137, 1987, pp. 7-19
  • with Hou Xian-guang: Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, with relationships and evolutionary significance, in AM Simonetta, S. Conway Morris: The early evolution of Metazoa and the significance of problematic taxa, Cambridge University Press 1991, 179-187
  • with Hou Xian-guang: Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China, in: Fossils and Strata, 45, 1997 (116 pages)
  • with Hou Xian-guang, Richard Aldridge, David J. Siveter, Derek Siveter, Xiang-Hong Feng: The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China - The Flowering of Early Animal Life, Wiley-Blackwell 2007

literature

  • Mikael Calner, Mark Johnson, Magnus Ripa, obituary in GFF, 134, 2012, 235

Web links

References and comments

  1. Topic of his licensed work in Lund 1968, Ordovician brachiopods from West Gotland
  2. For example Bergström, Berta Stjernquist, Curt W. Beck: Archaeological and scientific studies of amber from the Swedish iron age, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994