Sven P. Ekman

He enrolled at Uppsala University where he received a baccalaureate degree in 1899, a licentiate in 1903, and a doctorate in 1904.

In the intervening years, he taught biology and chemistry at a secondary school in Jönköping from 1909 to 1916.

[3] Ekman rewrote his 1935 German-language book Tiergeographie des Meeres in Swedish and had it translated into English with the title Zoogeography of the Sea (1953).

[7][8][9] He received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1953[10] for Zoogeography of the Sea.

The Russian marine scientist, A. I. Kafanov (2006) wrote about the contributions of "Sven Ekman on the 130th anniversary of his birth in the Russian Journal of Marine Biology, especially biogeography and a passage from that article is quoted here: As a zoologist, Ekman primarily specialized in studies of freshwater and brackish water crustaceans.