Swedish zoologist; upper secondary school lecturer (gymnasielektor) in biology, who devoted all his spare time to the morphology and phylogeny of marine invertebrates - especially freeliving platyhelmints.

Author of the following hydrozoan taxa:
Family Boreohydridae Westblad, 1947
Genus Boreohydra Westblad, 1937
Boreohydra simplex Westblad, 1937

source: http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.vw.html