Sven Nilsson

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Sven Nilsson

Sven Nilsson (8 March 1787 – 30 November 1883) was a Swedish zoologist and archaeologist.

Life and work

Nilsson was a Swedish zoologist. He was director of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (Sweden's natural history museum) from 1828 to 1831, professor of Natural History at Lund University from 1832 to 1856, and rector of Lund University from 1845 to 1846.[1]

Nilsson was a prolific author, publishing large works on different groups of the fauna of Scandinavia. worked as a field archaeologist and introduced ethnographic perspectives in archaeology. He was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1821.[1]

He corresponded with William Yarrell, acting as the authority on Swedish avifauna for Yarrell's History of British Birds (1843). For example, Yarrell records Nilsson as saying "it infests every house".[2]

Books

  • De variis mammalia disponendi modis (1812)
  • Ornithologia suecica (1817-1821)
  • Prodromus ichthyologiae scandinavicae (1832)
  • Observationes ichthyologicae (1835)
  • Skandinavisk fauna (1820-1853)
  • Historia molluscorum Sueciae (1823)
  • Petrificata suecana (1827)
  • Illuminerade figurer till skandinavisk fauna (1832-1840)
  • Prodromus ichthyologiae (1832)
  • The Primitive Inhabitants of the Scandinavian North (1838-1843) - Sven Nilsson describes four stages of culture transition: 1. Hunting and Fishing 2. Pastoralism 3. Agriculture 4. Civilization
  • Skandinaviska Nordens urinvånare (1862-1866)
  • Die Ureinwohner des skandinavischen Nordens (1863-1868)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chambers' Encyclopedia Volume 10 page 43
  2. ↑ Yarrell, William (1843). History of British Birds. John Van Voorst. pp. passim; Volume 1, p. 477 (for House Sparrow). 

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