August Wilhelm Malm (23 July 1821 – 5 March 1882) was aSwedishzoologist,entomologist andmalacologist.He was the first Director of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum.[1]
August Wilhelm Malm was born inLund, Sweden.Malm was generally self-taught without an academic degree. In the years 1838–1839, he was student and assistant ofSven Nilsson (1787–1883), professor of Natural History atLund University.He worked from 1840 as an assistant ofCarl Jakob Sundevall (1801–1875) at theSwedish Museum of Natural History, zoological department in Stockholm. He studied zoology in Copenhagen during 1843–44.[1]
From 1848, he was curator of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum).From 1852, he was a teacher of zoology at Gothenburg high school.From 1856-67, he is also the supervisor ofGothenburg and Bohus County Fisheries.[2][3][4]
When theGothenburg Museum was founded in 1861, the founding group included August Malm together with newspaper publisherSven Adolf Hedlund (1821–1900) and architect Victor von Gegerfelt (1817-1915). In 1862, Gothenburg Natural History Museum was incorporated into the Gothenburg Museum.[5]
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