Bror Yngve Sjöstedt
Bror Yngve Sjöstedt ( born August 3, 1866 in Hjo, † 1948) was a Swedish professor of zoology and entomology.
Sjöstedts parents Anders Gustaf and Emma Gustava Sjöstedt (born Forsell ) were traders in Hjo. After graduating from the Gymnasium ( Högre allmänna läroverk ) in Jönköping Sjöstedt studied zoology, mainly at Uppsala University, but also in France. After he had reached in 1890 the Bachelor's degree, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences sent him to a two-year research trip to Cameroon. In return he had an important collection in the luggage, which was housed in the Natural History National Museum and the Zoological Institute of the University of Uppsala. The trip also yielded numerous scientific publications.
Sjöstedt 1896 received his doctorate and was 1897-1901 employed at the Natural History Museum and Empire in parallel with the State Entomological Institute. In 1901 he took over the post editor for the " Entomologisk tidskrift ", an entomological journal ( this point he oversaw until 1910 ), and in 1902 he became a professor director of the Rijksmuseum.
In 1905 he embarked on his second expedition to Africa, which lasted about a year and more to the interior of the continent, mainly the area was around the Kilimanjaro, concentrated. From this trip he brought home 4,300 different species of animals (including approximately 1,300 previously unknown ). The results were published in 1910 Scientific results of the Swedish zoological expedition to Kilimanjaro, Meru and the surrounding Massaisteppen German East Africa from 1905 to 1906 in the three -volume German work. In addition, two emerged more popular scientific reports, På giraff -och i lejonjakt East Africa ( " On giraffes and lions hunting in East Africa ") and Bland i storvildt East Africa ( "Under big game in East Africa ", both 1911). Sjöstedt defended the thesis that the presence of more "Nordic" types at higher elevations in Africa it was based, that the continent was not any time tropical.
Sjöstedt published until 1936, numerous other works, including three volumes on the insect fauna of the National Park Abisko ( 1928-1931 ). In 1909 he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Sjöstedt was married to the opera singer Pink Green Mountain.