Adolph Modéer

Who was Adolph Modéer?

Adolph Modéer was a Swedish surveyor, economic historian and naturalist. As a naturalist he was mainly interested in malacology and entomology. He also worked on jellyfish. As an economic historian, he wrote on the history of Sweden's trade.

Modéer worked as a surveyor from 1755, and was Secretary of the Medical Society at Stockholm and from 1786 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

His publications as a naturalist were:

Någre märkvärdigheter hos insectet Cimex ovatus pallide-griseus, abdominis lateribus albo nigroque variis, alis albis, basi scutelli nigricante. - Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 25: 41-47, Tab. II [= 2]. Stockholm..

Bibliotheca helminthologica, seu Enumeratio auctorum qui de vermibus scilicet eryptozois, gymnodelis, testaceis atque phytozoois tam vivis quam petrificatis scripserunt edita ab Adolpho Modeer.

Styng-Flug-Slägtet. - Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 7: 125-158, 180-185. Stockholm.

Slägtet Pipmask, Tubipora. - Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 9: 219-239, 241-251, Tab. VII [= 7]. Stockholm.

Om Slägtet Trumpetmask, Triton. - Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 10: 52-56, Tab. II [= 2]. Stockholm.