Nils Svedelius

Prof Nils Eberhard Svedelius ForMemRS HFRSE (1873–1960) was a Swedish botanist. He was an expert on marine algae.

Life

He was born in Stockholm on 5 August 1873 the second son of Carl Svedelius LLD (1861-1951)[1], a senior judge in the Supreme Court of Justice, and his wife, Ebba Katarina Skytte, from the family of Skytte of Satra.[2]

He studied Botany at Uppsala University under Prof Frans Reinhold Kjellman, gaining his first degree in 1895 and second in 1900. He gained a doctorate in 1901 and began lecturing at the university, becoming Professor in 1914 and retiring in 1938.[3]

He won a travelling scholarship and spent the academic year 1902/3 in Ceylon studying marine algae mainly in the Galle region[4] also visiting Singapore and Java.[5]

In 1944 he was elected a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1955 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [6]

He died on 2 August 1960.

Family

In 1914 he married Lisa Thegerstrom (d.1955).

Publications

References


  1. ↑ https://www.geni.com/people/Carl-Svedelius/6000000017895887535
  2. ↑ http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/7/294
  3. ↑ http://www.psaalgae.org/trailblazers/
  4. ↑ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33720016.pdf
  5. ↑ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/543d47aee4b0f40897fde705/t/5498f5b8e4b0d7461afa3c4e/1419310520945/PT-no22-N+Svedelius+from+vol41_no1_2005.pdf
  6. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
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