Eric Mjöberg

Curator, Deceased Person

1882 – 1938

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Who was Eric Mjöberg?

Eric Georg Mjöberg was a Swedish zoologist and ethnographer who led the first Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia in the early 1900s, and worked in Indonesia. The plant Vaccinium mjoebergii J.J.Sm. was named after him, as were Mjöberg's Toadlet, the grasshopper Goniaea mjoebergi, the crab Uca mjoebergi, Mjöberg's Forest Dragon, the Atherton Tableland Skink, Mjöberg's Bush Frog, and Mjöberg's Dwarf Litter Frog.

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Born
Aug 6, 1882
Sweden
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Died
Jul 8, 1938

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on July 23, 2013

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