Adolph Modéer (15 April 173916 July 1799) 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
- NÃÂ¥gre märkvärdigheter hos insectet Cimex ovatus pallide-griseus, abdominis lateribus albo nigroque variis, alis albis, basi scutelli nigricante. â Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 25 (1âÂÂ3): 41âÂÂ47, Tab. II [= 2]. 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). â Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 7 (4âÂÂ6, 7âÂÂ9): 125âÂÂ158, 180âÂÂ185. Stockholm (1786).
- Slägtet Pipmask, Tubipora. â Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 9 (7âÂÂ9): 219âÂÂ239, 241âÂÂ251, Tab. VII [= 7]. Stockholm (1788).
- Om Slägtet Trumpetmask, Triton. â Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 10 (1âÂÂ3): 52âÂÂ56, Tab. II [= 2]. Stockholm (1789).
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