Michael Sars (b. August 30, 1805, d. October 22, 1869) was a Norwegian theologian and biologist. Sars was born in Bergen, Norway. He studied natural history and theology at Royal Frederick's University from 1823 and completed a degree in theology in 1828. For several years he taught at a number of different schools, firstly in Christiania and then in Bergen. In 1831 he was appointed vicar to Kinn on the Norwegian north west coast; eight years later he transferred to Manger, … Wikipedia
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The Norwegian Michael Sars must be seen as the real founder of hydrozoan systematics, despite Linnaeus and some others had already named hydrozoans before him. www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mhng/hydrozoa/history/msars.htm