Biography:Jacob Georg Agardh
Jacob Georg Agardh | |
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.jpg) Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901) painted by Oscar Björck in 1893 | |
| Born | 8 December 1813 Lund, Sweden |
| Died | 17 January 1901 (aged 87) Lund, Sweden |
| Citizenship | Sweden |
| Known for | Species, Genera et Ordines Algarum (1843–1863) |
| Awards | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | J. Agardh |
Jacob Georg Agardh (8 December 1813 in Lund, Sweden – 17 January 1901[1] in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist.[2]
He was the son of Carl Adolph Agardh, and from 1854 until 1879 was professor of botany at Lund University.[3][4] Agardh designed the current 1862 blueprints for the botanical garden Botaniska trädgården in Lund.[5]
In 1849, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Agardh was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1878.[6] It is said that the naturalist Mary Philadelphia Merrifield learnt Swedish in order that she could correspond with him.[7]
Works
His principal work, Species, Genera et Ordines Algarum (4 vols., Lund, 1848–63), was a standard authority.[3]
See also
- Swedish botanist Jacob Agardh identified Baudinet's algal specimens
References
- ↑ "Jacob G Agardh – Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon". https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=5591.
- ↑ Hunt Botanical Library, Carnegie-Mellon University (1972). Biographical Dictionary of Botanists Represented in the Hunt Institute Portrait Collection. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co.. p. 4. ISBN 0-8161-1023-9.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds (1879). "Agardh, Karl Adolf". The American Cyclopædia.
- ↑
Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds (1905). "Jacob Georg Agardh". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. https://archive.org/stream/newinternational01gilm#page/191/mode/1up.
- ↑ Botaniska trädgården. "A Brief History of the Lund University Botanical Garden". http://www.botaniskatradgarden.se/201-238-history_in_english.htm.
- ↑ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf.
- ↑ Creese, Mary R. S. (1 January 2000). Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800–1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research. Scarecrow Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-585-27684-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=amtGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31.
- ↑ IPNI, J. Agardh, http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=J.+Agardh
Further reading
- Eriksson, G. (1970). "Agardh, Jacob Georg". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 70–71. ISBN 0-684-10114-9.
- Theoria Systematis Plantarum; Accredit Familiarum Phanerogarum in Series Naturales Disposito, Secundum Structurae Normas et Evolutionis Gradus Instituta. Lund Apr–Sep 1858
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