Lennart Olsson

{{short description|Swedish zoologist and embryologist}}

Lennart Olsson, born 1961, is a Swedish zoologist and embryologist, professor of comparative zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany.

Olsson focuses his research primarily on the embryological development of the vertebrate head. He is also a major contributor to the history of ideas in comparative anatomy.

Olsson edits the journal Acta Zoologica together with Graham Budd.[http://www.wiley.com/bw/editors.asp?ref=0001-7272 Wiley-Blackwell: Acta Zoologica], accessed 2010-05-13