Odhner is a Swedish family. Notable members include:

People

Bengt Odhner Bengt Arne Odhner (10 August 1918 – 20 November 1990) was a Swedish diplomat. Early life Odhner was born on 10 August 1918 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Professor Nils Hjalmar Odhner and his wife Signhild (née Hagström). He earned a Juris ...

(1918–1990), Swedish diplomat * Clas Theodor Odhner (1836–1904), Swedish historian, director of the Swedish National Archives * Willgodt Theophil Odhner (1845–1905), Swedish engineer and inventor of the

Odhner Arithmometer The Odhner Arithmometer was a very successful pinwheel calculator invented in Russia in 1873 by Willgodt Theophil Odhner, W. T. Odhner, a Swedish people, Swedish immigrant. Its industrial production officiallyTrogemann G., Nitussov A.: ''Computi ...

working in Russia *

Nils Johan Teodor Odhner Nils is a Scandinavian given name, a chiefly Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Latvian variant of Niels, cognate to Nicholas. People and animals with the given name * Nils Elias Anckers (1858–1921), Swedish naval officer *Nils Beckman (1902–197 ...

(1879–1928), Swedish arctic explorer and zoologist who studied

trematode Trematoda is a Class (biology), class of flatworms known as trematodes, and commonly as flukes. They are obligate parasite, obligate Endoparasites, internal parasites with a complex biological life cycle, life cycle requiring at least two Host ( ...

s and

decapod crustaceans The Decapoda or decapods, from Ancient Greek δεκάς (''dekás''), meaning "ten", and πούς (''poús''), meaning "foot", is a large order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, and includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, and pr ...

Nils Hjalmar Odhner Nils Hjalmar Odhner (6 December 1884 – 12 June 1973) was a Swedish zoologist who studied mollusks, a malacologist. He was professor of invertebrate zoology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, and a member of the Royal Swedish Ac ...

(1884–1973), Swedish zoologist who studied

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

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mechanical calculator A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, is a mechanical device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic automatically, or a simulation like an analog computer or a slide rule. Most mechanical calculators were comparable in si ...

invented by Willgodt Theophil Odhner * AB Original-Odhner, a Swedish company manufacturing Odhner calculators *Facit-Odhner, a subsidiary of Facit AB, which bought AB Original-Odhner in 1942

References

*Hans Gillingstam, "Odhner", ''Svenskt biografiskt lexikon'', vol. 28. Swedish families Swedish-language surnames Surnames