Adolf Appellöf


Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf was a Swedish marine zoologist.
Appellöf matriculated at Uppsala University in 1877, earned his PhD in 1886 and became a docent of zoology in 1887. In 1889 he received the position of conservator at the University Museum of Bergen. He was appointed professor of comparative anatomy in Uppsala in 1910. With a donation from the sawmill magnate Bünsow, Appellöf established the Klubban Biological Station of Uppsala University, a station for the study of marine biology located on the west coast of Sweden. In 1919 he was elected a member of the Royal [Swedish Academy of Sciences] and in 1920 of the Royal [Society of Sciences in Uppsala].
He made several important contributions to the knowledge of cephalopods.

Partial bibliography

  • "Die schalen von Sepia, Spirula und Nautilus, Studien über ihren Bau und Wachsthum"
  • "Teuthologische beiträge", 1-4
  • "Cephalopoden von Ternate"
  • "Über das vorkommen innerer Schalen bei Octopoda".
  • "Über einige Resultate der Kreuzbefruchtung bei Knochenfischen"
  • "Zur Kenntnis der Edvardsien"
  • "Studien über Actinien-Entwicklung".
  • "Untersuchungen über den Hummer: mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seines Auftretens an den Norwegischen Küsten".