August Wilhelm Malm

August Wilhelm Malm (23 July 1821 – 5 March 1882) was a Swedish zoologist, entomologist and malacologist. He was the first Director of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum.

Biography August Wilhelm Malm was born in Lund, Sweden. Malm was generally self-taught without an academic degree. In the years 1838–1839, he was student and assistant of Sven Nilsson (1787–1883), professor of Natural History at Lund University. He worked from 1840 as an assistant of Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801–1875) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, zoological department in Stockholm. He studied zoology in Copenhagen during 1843–44.

When the Gothenburg Museum was founded in 1861, the founding group included August Malm together with newspaper publisher Sven Adolf Hedlund (1821–1900) and architect Victor von Gegerfelt (1817-1915). In 1862, Gothenburg Natural History Museum was incorporated into the Gothenburg Museum.

Selected works 1855 - Om Svenska landt- och söttvattens mollusker, med särskilt afseende på de arter och former, som förkomma i grannskapet af Christianstad (C) och Göteborg (G) 1866 - Om den i Bohuslän strandade hvalen 1866 - Några blad om hvaldjur i allmänhet och Balænoptera Carolinæ i synnerhet 1871 - Hvaldjur i Sveriges museer, år 1869 1877 - Göteborg och Bohusläns fauna, Ryggradsdjvren