Eric Mjöberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eric Mjöberg

Swedish zoologist and ethnographer

Date of Birth: 06-Aug-1882

Place of Birth: Ås, Akershus, Norway

Date of Death: 08-Jul-1938

Profession: zoologist, entomologist, anthropologist, scientific explorer, ethnographer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Eric Georg Mjöberg (6 August 1882 – 8 July 1938) was a Swedish zoologist and ethnographer who led the first Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia in the early 1900s, and worked in Indonesia.
The plant Vaccinium mjoebergii J.J.Sm.
was named after him, as were Mjoberg's toadlet (Uperoleia mjobergii ), the grasshopper Goniaea mjoebergi, the crab Uca mjoebergi, Mjöberg's forest dragon (Gonocephalus mjobergi ), the Atherton Tableland skink (Glaphyromorphus mjobergi ), Mjöberg's bush frog (Philautus mjobergi ), and Mjöberg's dwarf litter frog (Leptobrachella mjobergi ).