Harald Thamdrup
Harald Mogensen Thamdrup (May 17, 1908 – November 13, 1998) was a Danish biologist and science organizer. He 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 in Aarhus 1941-1978 and founded the Mols Laboratory in 1941 and the Game Biology Station at Kalø in 1949.
Thamdrup studied natural history at the University of Copenhagen and won a gold medal for his thesis on soil dwelling oribatid mites.[1] He obtained a dr. phil. degree in 1935 on his thesis about the intertidal fauna of the Wadden Sea.[2] Thamdrup then turned to the study of soil fauna of heathland. [3]
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. [4]
References
- ^ 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 Skalling-Laboratoriet, vol. 2 [series= 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. Acta Jutlandica 11 Supplementum. Naturhistorisk Museum, Aarhus.
- ^ Kaaber, Svend (1998). "Harald M. Thamdrup (obituary)". Aarhus University Årbog 1998.
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