Johan Wilhelm Dalman

Johan Wilhelm Dalman (* November 4, 1787 at Gut Hinse Mountain, Västmanland, † July 12, 1828 ) was a Swedish physician, professor and entomologist.

Life

Dalman received his basic training at the Institute of Kristian field in the Duchy of Schleswig. In 1803 he enrolled at the University of Lund and laid two years later his law exams, since he had the intention to get a job in the Swedish Mountain College. Nourished by the lectures of Anders Jahan Retzius and Carl Fredrik Fallén and by his acquaintance to entomologists Leonard Gyllenhaal came Dalman's interest in natural sciences more pronounced. He changed the course of study and earned his doctorate in 1817 as a Doctor of Medicine in Uppsala. The following year, he became librarian and director of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1819 he began as a lecturer at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. After he was admitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1821, he received the title of professor in 1824. In 1821 he was also elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina. Shortly before his death he took over the supervision of professors in the fields of botany and natural history at his institute.

Dalman is honored by a large number of scientific names for organisms, mainly for fossils, such as the genus of trilobites Dalmanites order Phacopida. He dealt with the classification of trilobites and wrote a treatise on trilobites ( Om Palaeaderna, eller så de kallade Trilobiterna, 1827), but which he Palaederna called, although the name had already enforced trilobites for his time with other scientists.

Selected Works

• Analecta entomologica (1823 )
• Ephemerides entomologicæ (1824 )
• Om palæaderna eller så de kallade trilobiterna (1826, extension 1828)