Peter Olof Swartz [1] ( Swede. Peter Olof Swartz [2] , 1760 - 1818 ) - Swedish botanist . [3]
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| Peter Olof Swartz | |
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| Date of Birth | September 21, 1760 |
| Place of Birth | Norrkoping |
| Date of death | September 19, 1818 (57 years old) |
| A place of death | Stockholm |
| A country | Sweden |
| Scientific field | Botany |
| Place of work | Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences |
| Alma mater | Uppsala University |
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| Awards and prizes | [d] |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Sw. " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Peter Olof Swartz was born in Norrkoping in 1760 . Since 1778 he studied at Uppsala University . In 1785 he received a doctorate in medicine. [four]
In 1783-1787 traveled to the Caribbean and collected up to 800 new plants on the islands of Jamaica and Haiti . As a result of this trip, he published the compositions “Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus” (1788), “Observationes botanicae” (1791) and “Flora Indiae occidentalis” (1797-1806). [3] [5]
I. Kh. Schreber named the genus of plants Swartzia from the legume family in honor of Swartz. [3]
Since 1806, Swartz served as the curator of the collection, and since 1811 - the secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . [four]
He died in Stockholm in 1818 . [four]
Selected Works [3]
- Nova genera et species plantarum (1788);
- Observationes botanicae, quibus plantae Indiae occidentalis illustrantur (1891, table 11);
- Icones plantarum (1794)
- Flora Indiae occidentalis (1797-1806, 3 volumes, with 29 tablets);
- Dispositio systematica muscorum frondosorum Sueciae (1799, with 9 tablets);
- Synopsis filicum (1806, with 5 tablets);
- Lichenes araericani (1811, with 18 tablets);
- Summa vegetabilium Scandinaviae (1814).
Notes
- ↑ There is another version of the translation of the surname - Schwartz
- ↑ In some sources - Olof Peter Swartz
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Swartz // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Handwritings from the Linnean herbarium: Peter Olof Swartz - The Swedish Museum of Natural History. (eng.)
- ↑ The Swartz herbarium - The Swedish Museum of Natural History. (eng.)