Carl Jakob Sundevall
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| Born | Carl Jakob Sundevall 22 October 1801 |
| Died | 2 February 1875 (aged 73) |
Carl Jakob Sundevall (22 October 1801,
zoologist
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Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as a Doctor of Medicine in 1830.
He was employed at the
arachnologist, for which (for the latter field) in 1833 he published an early catalog Conspectus Arachnidum. Much later in 1862, he wrote a monograph proposing a universal phonetic alphabet
, Om phonetiska bokstäver.
Legacy
Sundevall is commemorated in the scientific names of four species of reptiles: Leptotyphlops sundewalli, Mochlus sundevallii, and Prosymna sundevalli.[1] Also the rodent, Sundevall's jird (Meriones crassus) is named after him.
References
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Sundevall", p. 258).
Sources
- Anonymous (1875). [Sundevall, C. J.] Journ. Ornith. 23: 214–215.
- Anonymous (1875). [Sundevall, C. J.] J. Zool. 4: 61.
- Areschoug, J. E. (1879). Minnesteckning öfver C. J. Sundevall. Stockholm.
- Bonnet, P. (1945). Bibliographia Araneorum. Toulouse.
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