Axel Elof Jäderholm (1868–1927) of Sweden: educator, hydrozoan zoologist and botanist

• Published in: Archives of Natural History
• Main Author: Calder, Dale R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh University Press 2014
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous); History; Anthropology; Antarctic; Pacific; Polar Star; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2014.0245; https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full-xml/10.3366/anh.2014.0245

Axel Elof Jäderholm was born in Söderhamn, Sweden, on 24 July 1868. In 1888 he entered Uppsala Universitet, earning undergraduate (1892) and doctorate (1898) degrees. His doctoral dissertation was based on an anatomical study of South American Peperomia (Piperaceae). While a graduate student he comm...