Tamerlan Thorell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tamerlan Thorell

Swedish arachnologist

Date of Birth: 03-May-1830

Place of Birth: Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1901

Profession: docent, university teacher, entomologist, arachnologist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Swedish arachnologist. Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa.
He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, Eugène Simon and Thomas Workman. He described more than 1,000 spider species during his time from the 1850 to 1900. Thorell wrote: On European Spiders (1869) and Synonym of European Spiders (1870-73).