Hjalmar Broch

19 July 1882 - 6 August 1969, Norway

Hjalmar Broch (left) and Kristine Bonnevie (right), about 1930 source

Professor Hjalmar Broch, (19 July - Horten (Borre)) 1882-1969 (6 Aug. - Oslo), Norwegian cnidariologist, who from 1920 was the director of the Biological Station at Dröbak in the Oslo Fjord. Broch had after studies at the university in Christiania (Oslo) under Bonnevie (PhD there in 1910) started his zoological carreer in Bergen by studying population dynamics among herring via their scales, but left in 1910 for the Museum in Trondheim, where he stayed until 1920. When returning to Oslo in 1920, he and his family (he had married) found nowhere to live, so they stayed at the Biological Station in Dröbak for several years. He was a populal speaker among his students.
(source: http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.b.html)

Hjalmar Broch revised several higher taxa and described many species and, e. g.:

Rhizogeton nudus Broch, 1910
Perarella fallax (Broch, 1914)
Hydractinia michaelseni Broch, 1914
Crypthelia clausa Broch, 1947
Distichopora serpens Broch, 1942
Errina kerguelensis Broch, 1942
Errina rubra Broch, 1942
Errinopora stylifera (Broch, 1935)
Lepidotheca cervicornis (Broch, 1942)
Lepidotheca tenuistylus (Broch, 1942)
Errinopora stylifera (Broch, 1935)
Pliobothrus seriatus Broch, 1942
Sporadopora mortenseni Broch, 1942
Stylaster bithalamus Broch, 1936
Stylaster bocki Broch, 1936
Stylaster boreopacificus Broch, 1933
Stylaster carinatus Broch, 1936
Stylaster crassior Broch, 1936
Stylaster dentatus Broch, 1936
Stylaster echinatus Broch, 1936
Stylaster lonchitis Broch, 1947
Stylaster microstriatus Broch, 1936
Stylaster polymorphus Broch, 1936
Stylaster profundiporus Broch, 1936
Stylaster ramosus Broch, 1936
Stylaster solidus Broch, 1935
Branchiocerianthus reniformis Broch, 1918
Corymorpha abyssalis Broch, 1909
Campanularia norvegiae Broch, 1948
Halecium minutum Broch, 1903
Sertularella ornata Broch, 1933
Cladocarpus diana Broch, 1918

Biography in Norwegian:

http://lexprod.bokklubbene.no/.nbl_biografi/Hjalmar_Broch/utdypning