Biography:Gustaf Lagerheim

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Short description: Swedish botanist
Nils Gustaf Lagerheim
A portrait of Nils Gustaf Lagerheim
Born
Stockholm, Sweden
Died
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Alma materUpsala university
OccupationBotanist
Spouse(s)Céline Julie Berthe Devéria

Nils Gustaf Lagerheim (1860–1926) was a Swedish botanist, mycologist, phycologist, and pteridologist.[1]

Today, he is best remembered as one of the chief architects of pollen analysis as a tool in botany, alongside his student Ernst Post.[2][3]

The standard author abbreviation Lagerh. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References

  1. Grummann, Vitus (1966). Biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch d. Lichenolgie. 
  2. "The first 100 years of pollen analysis". Nature Plants 3 (2). 2017. doi:10.1038/nplants.2017.1. 
  3. Post, Ernst (1918). "Skogsträdspollen i sydsvenska torvmosselagerföljder". Skandinaviske Naturforskeres: 432–465. 
  4. IPNI,  Lagerh., http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Lagerh.