Carl Jakob Sundevall

Carl Jacob Sundevall ( born October 22, 1801 Good Högestad, Ystad Municipality, † February 2nd 1875 in Stockholm) was a Swedish zoologist.

After completing his studies at Lund University, where he graduated in 1823 as Doctor of Philosophy, Sundevall traveled to East Asia. He then studied medicine and became a doctor in 1830 in this field of science. From 1830 to 1831 he was the Chair in front of Natural History in Lund and has held the office of Adjunkts 1834 in business, as well as the Intendenten at the Zoological Institute of the University of Lund. Here he stood before the Chair, 1836.

Already in 1831 and 1833 to 1834 worked Sundevall riksmuseet on Naturhistoriska, where he was ultimately responsible as a professor in the field of vertebrate 1839-1871. One of his works was Svenska foglarne which described more than 200 Swedish birds. He classified a number of birds that brought the collector Johan August Wahlberg from southern Africa.

In the meantime, took Sundevall 1839 a French expedition to Spitsbergen in part. He was a member of various scientific organizations: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Forestry and Agriculture, the Royal Physio Graphic Society in Lund, the Kungliga Vetenskaps -och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg, the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Other works

• Lärobok i zoologien, 1835.
• Hand Atlas lärobok till i zoologien, 1843.
• Methodisk öfversigt af idislande djuren, Linnaeus Pecora ( Methodological Overview ruminant animals, Linnaeus Pecora ), 1844-1845.
• Conspectus avium picinarum, 1866.
• Methodius naturalis avium disponendarum tentamen, 1872.