Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish geologist
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Place of Birth: Falun, Dalarna County, Sweden
About Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh
- Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh (31 January 1910 – 8 June 1948) was a Swedish palaeontologist and geologist.
- Säve-Söderbergh was born at Falun, the son of the neurologist Gotthard Söderbergh and Inga Säve.
- He passed his G.C.E.
- at Gothenburg in 1928 and took bachelor's and licentiate's degrees at Uppsala University in 1931 and 1933, respectively.
- He was appointed professor of geology, historical geology in particular, at Uppsala in 1937. Säve-Söderbergh participated in Lauge Koch's Three-year Expedition to East Greenland in 1931-1934 and 1936.
- He brought back fossils of Ichthyostega, by then the earliest known tetrapod, and published an extensive preliminary report on it in 1932.
- He also collected fossils on Cyprus (1930), in England and Scotland (1934), and Estonia (1936).
- Säve-Söderbergh went on to study the biostratigraphy of the East Greenland Palaeozoic and the problem of skull bone homologies among fishes and tetrapods.
- He also investigated the cranial anatomy of Triassic stegocephalians from East Greenland and Spitsbergen and of Devonian lungfish; he intended to carry out a broad study of both Recent and fossil lungfish. Other works by Säve-Söderbergh include a comparative study of the lateral line system and an analysis of the trigeminal musculature in lower tetrapods.Tuberculosis thwarted Säve-Söderbergh's career and he died in 1948.
- He died at Solbacken, a sanatorium in Dalarna.
- His research on the Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega was continued by Erik Jarvik.
- Säve-Söderbergh was made an honorary doctor at Uppsala in 1942 and was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences shortly before his death.
- He was the brother of egyptologist Torgny Säve-Söderbergh (1914–1998) and father of Bengt Säve-Söderbergh (b.
- 1940), former ambassador and State Secretary.
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