Fredrik Wilhelm Mäklin

Fredrik Wilhelm Mäklin (May 26, 1821 – January 8, 1883) was a Finnish zoologist and a professor at the University of Helsinki.

Mäklin was born in Joutseno and went to study zoology at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland in Helsinki in 1839 under C. R. Sahlberg.

After Nordmann's death in 1866 he competed and became a professor alongside Anders Johan Malmgren who was favoured by most students over the more pedantic Mäklin.

He collaborated on entomology with Carl Gustaf Mannerheim and worked on beetles particularly in the Staphylinidae, Cantharidae and Mordellidae.

He died in Helsinki and was succeeded by Johan Axel Palmén as professor of zoology.