Harald Thamdrup

March 17, 1908 (age 90)

He was a professor of zoology at Aarhus University 1959-1975 – the first in that chairman 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. He obtained a doctor philosophy degree in 1935 on his thesis about the intertidal fauna of the Wadden Sea. Thamdrup then turned to the study of soil fauna of heathland. 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.

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University of Copenhagen.

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He was a professor of zoology at Aarhus University 1959-1975 – the first in that chairman 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. He obtained a doctor philosophy degree in 1935 on his thesis about the intertidal fauna of the Wadden Sea.

Thamdrup then turned to the study of soil fauna of heathland.

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.

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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.

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