Adolph Modéer

Adolf Modéer

Adolph Modéer (15 April 1739 – 16 July 1799) was a Swedish surveyor, economic historian and naturalist.

Biography

Modéer was born at Karlskrona, Sweden. He became a student at Lund University in 1754.

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. 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.

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ "Adolph Modéèr". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved 1 October 2020.