Adolph Modéer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolph Modéer

Swedish scientist and academic

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1739

Place of Birth: Royal Karlskrona Admiralty Parish, Blekinge County, Sweden

Date of Death: 16-Jul-1799

Profession: naturalist, economist, entomologist, malacologist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Adolph Modéer (1738–1799) was a Swedish surveyor, economic historian and naturalist.
As a naturalist he was mainly interested in malacology and entomology.
He also worked on jellyfish.
As an economic historian, he wrote on the history of Sweden's trade. Modéer worked as a surveyor from 1755, and was Secretary of the Medical Society at Stockholm and from 1786 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His publications as a naturalist were: Någre märkvärdigheter hos insectet Cimex ovatus pallide-griseus, abdominis lateribus albo nigroque variis, alis albis, basi scutelli nigricante.
- Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 25 (1-3): 41-47, Tab.
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Stockholm.
(1764). Bibliotheca helminthologica, seu Enumeratio auctorum qui de vermibus scilicet eryptozois, gymnodelis, testaceis atque phytozoois tam vivis quam petrificatis scripserunt edita ab Adolpho Modeer (J.J.
Palmium, Erlangen, 1786). Styng-Flug-Slägtet (Oestrus).
- Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 7 (4-6, 7-9): 125-158, 180-185.
Stockholm (1786). Slägtet Pipmask, Tubipora.
- Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 9 (7-9): 219-239, 241-251, Tab.
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Stockholm (1788). Om Slägtet Trumpetmask, Triton.
- Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 10 (1-3): 52-56, Tab.
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Stockholm (1789).