Sven Magnus Aurivillius (12 August 1892 in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

– 4 March 1928 in ), was a Swedish

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

. He was the director of the centre for marine zoology in Kristineberg in 1923, but left prematurely, just before the publishing of his thesis on Japanese

sea fan Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated . The following text should be considered a historical, outdated way of treat ...

s. He was the eighth generation of his family to be a doctor at the

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. His father was the

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843 – 20 July 1928) was a Swedish entomologist. Life Christopher Aurivillius was born at Forsa, Sweden. He was the director of the Natural History Museum in Stockholm and he specialised in Col ...

(1853–1928), and his uncle was the zoologist

Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius (31 August 1854 in the parish of Forsa, today part of Hudiksvall Municipality – 1899) was a Swedish planktology, planktologist and carcinologist. He was the brother of entomologist Per Olof Christopher Aurivi ...

(1854–1899).

References

Short biography at BEMON
1892 births 1928 deaths Scientists from Stockholm 20th-century Swedish zoologists {{Sweden-scientist-stub