Holger Valdemar Brøndsted

Holger Valdemar Brøndsted (1893–1977) was a Danish zoologist, teacher and writer.

He earned his first degree from Aarhus University, and then studied natural sciences at the University of Copenhagen. This led to his working as an assistant to Professor Johan Erik Vesti Boas at the Agricultural University's zoological laboratory, as both a teacher and researcher. Following his marriage in 1919, he went to work at Birkerød State School in 1920, initially working as a part-time teacher, but 1921 as an assistant professor. This led to his writing several popular biology books. While teaching, he resumed his scientific studies, first at the Carlsberg Foundation's Biological Institute with Albert Fischer, and later at Stockholm University (1934-1936), where he earned his doctorate with the thesis, Entwicklungsphysiologische Studien über Spongilla lacustris (Studies of the developmental physiology of Spongilla lacustris). His interest in developmental physiology led to a series of lectures at Copenhagen University, and the possibility of a chair there, but war intervened. Grantia transgrediens Brøndsted, 1931 1945 Gymnasiets Fremtid (The High School's Future) 1951 Biologi og menneskeforståelse (Biology and Human Understanding) 1956 Atomalderen og menneskets biologiske fremtid (The Atomic Age and the Biological Future of Man), German edition 1957, English edition 1958, French edition 1959. 1956 Naturerkendelse, gudserkendelse og tro (Nature recognition, god recognition and faith) 1964 Hvad er liv? (What is life?) 1969 Planarian Regeneration 1989, 2003 Tanker til overvejelse for os ældre (Thoughts for Consideration for the Older Ones) 1973 En udfordring til de yngste generationer (A Challenge to the Younger Generations) 1974 Et liv - tre tidsperioder (A Life - Three Periods of Time) 1975 Kontroversielle essays, om nogle vigtige tilværelsesproblemer (Controversial Essays, on Some Important Problems of Existence)

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