Harald Mogensen Thamdrup (17 May 1908 – 13 November 1998) was a Danish biologist and science organizer. [1]
Thamdrup was a professor of zoology at Aarhus University 1959-1975 – the first in that chair. He also served as a director of the Natural History Museum, Aarhus 1941-1978 and founded the research station Mols Laboratory (Molslaboratoriet) in 1941 and in 1949 the Wildlife Biological Station (Vildtbiologisk Station) at Kalø which he led for 30 years. [2][3]
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Thamdrup studied natural history at the University of Copenhagen and won a gold medal for his thesis on soil dwelling oribatid mites.[4]
He obtained a dr. phil. degree in 1935 on his thesis about the intertidal fauna of the Wadden Sea.[5] Thamdrup then turned to the study of soil fauna of heathland.[6]
In 1959, he establishment the Department of Zoology at Aarhus University where he served as professor until 1975. Thamdrup was the chairman of the Danish committee under the International Biological Programme 1967-1974 and was in many other respects an organizational catalyst in Danish ecological research during the remainder of his professional life.[7]
References edit
- ^ "Harald Mogensen Thamdrup". AarhusWiki. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ^ "Om Molslaboratoriet". Naturhistorisk Museum Aarhus. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ^ "Vildtbiologisk station (Kalø, Denmark)". The Library of Congress. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ^ Thamdrup, H. M. (1928). Danske Pansermider, Oribatei. 2 vols, 258 pp. University of Copenhagen.
- ^ Thamdrup, H. M. (1935). Beiträge zur Ökologie der Wattenfauna auf experimenteller Grundlage, 125 pp. Meddelelser fra Kommissionen for Danmarks Fiskeri- og Havundersøgelser, serie: Fiskeri, vol. 2. C. A. Reitzel, Kopenhagen.
- ^ Thamdrup, H. M. (1939). Studier over jydske Heders Økologi I. Hedebundens Fugtighedsforhold [Studies on the ecology of the heathlands of Jutland. 1. Soil moisture]. Acta Jutlandica 11 Supplementum. Naturhistorisk Museum, Aarhus.
- ^ Kaaber, Svend (1998). "Harald M. Thamdrup (obituary)". Aarhus University Årbog 1998.