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Teodor Odhner
Born	(1879-02-25)February 25, 1879 Lund, Sweden
Died	October 29, 1928(1928-10-29) (aged 49) Stockholm, Sweden
Burial place	Northern Cemetery, Solna, Sweden[1]
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation	Zoologist
Children	Clas-Erik Odhner
Parents	Clas Theodor Odhner (father) Emma Hedvig Charlotta Knos (mother)

Nils Johan Teodor Odhner (February 25, 1879 – October 29, 1928)^[2] was a Swedish zoologist. Odhner was born in Lund, Sweden.^[3] He was the son of the historian and archivist Clas Theodor Odhner^[4] and the father of the agronomist Clas-Erik Odhner.

Odhner became an associate professor of zoology at Uppsala University in 1905,^[4] a professor of zoology at the University of Oslo in 1914, a professor and curator of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm in the invertebrate department in 1918,^[5] and also director of the Stockholm Workers' Institute (Stockholms arbetareinstitut) in 1922.^[3][5]

Odhner participated in Gustaf Kolthoff's zoological expeditions to Svalbard and eastern Greenland in 1900, and in Leonard Jägerskiöld expedition to the White Nile in 1901.^[3][5] He also conducted zoological studies at the stations in Trieste and Naples.^[5] He made several contributions to the literature on the anatomy and classification of the flukes, and in 1925 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,^[5] where he served as vice secretary from 1923 to 1928.

• 1905: "Die Trematoden des arktischen Gebietes" (The Trematoda of the Arctic Region). Fauna Arctica 4: 289–372.
• 1907: "Zur Anatomie der Didymozoen: ein getrenntgeschlechtlicher Trematode mit rudimentarem Hermaphroditismus" (The Anatomy of the Didymozooidea: A Gender-Specific Trematode with Rudimentary Hermaphroditism). In: Zoologiska studier tillägnade professor T. Tullberg på hans 65-års dag, pp. 309–342. Uppsala: Naturvetenskapliga studentsallskapet i Uppsala.
• 1910: Nordostafrikanische Trematoden: grösstenteils vom Weissen Nil (von der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition gesammelt) (Northeast African Trematoda: Mostly from the White Nile, Collected by the Swedish Zoological Expedition). Uppsala: K.W. Appelbergs Boktryckeri.
• 1912: "Zum natürlichen System der digenen Trematoden" (The Natural System of the Digene Trematoda). Zoologischer Anzeiger 41: 54–71.
• 1923: "Marine Crustacea Podophthalmata aus Angola und Südafrika gesammelt von H. Skoog 1912" (Marine Crustacea Podophthalmata from Angola and South Africa Collected by Hilmer Skoog in 1912). Göteborgs kungl. vetenskaps-och vitterhets-samhälles handlingar 27: 1–39.
• 1925: Monographierte Gattungen der Krabbenfamilie Xanthidae (Monographed Genera of the Crab Family Xanthidae). Göteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag.