Leonard Jägerskiöld

Leonard Jägerskiöld
Axel Krister Edward Leonard Jägerskiöld (November 12, 1867 – August 4, 1945) was a Finland-born Swedish zoologist. He collected specimens across Scandinavia despite problems in vision and hearing and was a curator at the Gothenburg museum. His early work was on nematodes but later worked on birds and marine biology. Life and work. Jägerskiöld was born on Mejlan estate in Finland, Nyland county where his father Gustaf Magnus Leonard (1831–71) was a captain in the Russian navy. After the death of his father, he moved to Stockholm when his mother Johanna Vilhelmina Augusta married her cousin A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Leonard_J%C3%A4gerski%C3%B6ld

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