Oskar Carlgren

Oskar Carlgren

Oskar Henrik Carlgren (born December 1, 1865 in Falun ; † August 10, 1954 ) was a Swedish zoologist .

Life

Carlgren studied from 1884 in Uppsala and in 1893 received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ( filosfie doktor ) with the defense of the treatise Studies on Nordic Actinias . He got a job as a lecturer at Stockholm University (today Stockholm University ) where he was from 1902 also prosector at the Institute for Zootomy . During this period he went on several scientific excursions to Germany and Italy . From 1912 to 1930 he held a chair at Lund University .

Carlgren was considered an expert on corals , especially sea ​​anemones (Actiniaria), which he studied extensively. He also carried out physiological studies on a number of other "lower" animals. In his later years he dealt extensively with the regenerative capacity of hollow animals (coelenterates).

Oskar Carlgren's election to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences took place in 1908 and in 1913 he became a member of the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund .

Works

• Observations on the mesentery position of the zoantharia and bilateral symmetry of the anthozoa . In: Festschrift for Lilljeborg , 1896
• Zoanthariums . In: Results of the Hamburg-Magelhaen collecting trip , 1898
• East African Actinia . In: Messages from the Natural History Museum in Hamburg , 1900
• About the action of the constant galvanic current on lower organisms . In: Archives for Anatomy and Physiology , 1900
• The brood care of the Actiniariums . In: Biological Centralblatt , 1901
• Studies on regeneration and regulation phenomena . In: Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar , 1904
• The tetraplatia (1909)

literature

• Carlgren, Oskar Henrik . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 4 : Brant-Cesti . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1905, Sp. 1168 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

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