August Wilhelm Malm

August Wilhelm Malm (23 July 1821 – 5 March 1882) was a Swedish zoologist, entomologist and malacologist.

[1] August Wilhelm Malm was born in Lund, Sweden.

In the years 1838–1839, he was student and assistant of Sven Nilsson (1787–1883), professor of Natural History at Lund University.

He worked from 1840 as an assistant of Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801–1875) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, zoological department in Stockholm.

[2] [3][4] When the Gothenburg Museum was founded in 1861, the founding group included August Malm together with newspaper publisher Sven Adolf Hedlund (1821–1900) and architect Victor von Gegerfelt (1817-1915).