Education
Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1830.
ornithologist university professor Zoologist
Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1830.
He was employed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm from 1833, and was professor and keeper of the vertebrate section from 1839 to 1871. He wrote Svenska Foglarna (1856-1887) which described 238 species of birds observed in Sweden. In 1835, he developed a phylogeny for the birds based on the muscles of the hip and leg that contributed to later work by Thomas Huxley.
He then went on to examine the arrangement of the deep plantar tendons in the bird"s foot.
This latter information is still used by avian taxonomists. Sundevall was also an entomologist and arachnologist and in 1862 wrote a monograph proposing a universal phonetic alphabet, Om phonetiska bokstäver.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences.
