Adolph Modéer


Adolph Modéer was a Swedish surveyor, economic historian and naturalist.

Biography

Modéer was born at Karlskrona, Sweden.
He became a student at Lund University in 1754.
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].
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.

Selected works

  • Någre märkvärdigheter hos insectet Cimex ovatus pallide-griseus, abdominis lateribus albo nigroque variis, alis albis, basi scutelli nigricante. – Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 25 : 41–47, Tab. II . Stockholm..
  • Bibliotheca helminthologica, seu Enumeratio auctorum qui de vermibus scilicet eryptozois, gymnodelis, testaceis atque phytozoois tam vivis quam petrificatis scripserunt edita ab Adolpho Modeer.
  • Styng-Flug-Slägtet. – Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 7 : 125–158, 180–185. Stockholm.
  • Slägtet Pipmask, Tubipora. – Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 9 : 219–239, 241–251, Tab. VII . Stockholm.
  • Om Slägtet Trumpetmask, Triton. – Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 10 : 52–56, Tab. II . Stockholm.