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Anders Sparrman (born February 27, 1748 in Tensta , Sweden , † August 9, 1820 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish doctor , botanist and ornithologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Sparrm. ".

Life

Anders Sparrman was a son of Pastor Eric Sparrman and his wife Brita Högbom. When he was about 10 years old he went to Uppsala , enrolled at Uppsala University and became a student of Linnaeus there . He started studying medicine at the age of 14. During his studies he met Carl Peter Thunberg , with whom he later became a close friend.

The area of ​​"East India".
The Resolution and Adventure ships in Matavai Bay, Tahiti, on their second voyage.
Africa map from 1812.
The species Sarcophyte sanguinea (right) was first described by Anders Sparrman in 1776.

In 1765 he was under the command of Captain Carl Gustav Ekeberg (1716–1784) ship's doctor on board the Stockholms Slott and until 1767 traveled to the East Indies and China . On November 30, 1768, his dissertation was published under the title Iter in Chinam , with which he completed his medical studies.

To study nature in the south of Africa , he sailed from Gothenburg to Cape Town in January 1772 , where he arrived in April. In November 1772 he went on board the Resolution as assistant to Johann Reinhold Forster and took part in James Cook's second voyage until March 1775 . During the trip he translated the work De Morbis infantum by Nils Rosén von Rosenstein , published in 1752, into English.

In July 1776 he returned to Sweden, where he had already been awarded his doctorate (Dr. med.) In his absence in 1773. In the same year he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . In 1780 he became director of the natural history collection of the academy and in 1781 professor of natural history and pharmacy. Since 1808 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

He described his travels in 1783 in his work Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden . As early as 1784, the German translation made by Christian Heinrich Groskurd appeared in the years 1772 to 1776 under the title Journey to the Promontory of Good Hope, the Southern Polar Countries and around the world, but mainly the countries of the Hottentots and Kaffirs . An English translation of the book followed in 1787, and a French and Dutch translation in 1787.

In 1787 Sparrman set out from Paris and traveled on behalf of the Swedish King Gustav III. For a year together with Carl Axel Arrhenius and Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746–1799) West Africa , a. a. the areas of the present-day states of Guinea , Cape Verde , Senegal and the island of Gorée . In 1790 he became assessor of the Collegium Medicum .

In the Museum Carlsonianum , published in 1786, Anders Sparrman describes and illustrates 100 species from the private collection of Johan Gustaf von Carlson (1743–1801) from Mälby ( Södermanland ). These include 12 species of birds from New Zealand that he brought back from his trip with James Cook. The Svensk Ornithology , begun in 1805, is exclusively devoted to Swedish bird species.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • The Diseases of Children, and their Remedies , (London, 1776)
    translation by Nils Rosén of Rosenstein's De Morbis infantum
  • Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra Polkretsen och omkring Jordklotet, and till Hottentott- och Caffer-Landen Åren 1772–1776 . Stockholm, Volume 1: 1783; Volume 2 Part 1: 1802; Volume 2 Part 2: 1818
  • Museum Carlsonianum, in quo novas et selectas aves, coloribus ad vivum brevique descriptione illustratas, suasu et sumtibus generosissimi possessoris (1786–89, published in 4 parts)
  • Svensk Ornithologie Med efter naturen colorerade tekningar (1805–1816, published in 11 parts)

swell

  • Biographiskt lexicon öfver namnkunnige svenske men . Stockholm, 1835-1875
  • David G. Medway: The extant type specimens of birds from New Zealand and the Society Islands collected on Cook's second voyage and described by Anders Sparrman in Museum Carlsonianum (1786–1789) . In: Notornis 51 (3), pp. 131–135 (PDF) ( Memento from October 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  • Anders Sparrman joins the voyage

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personal data
SURNAME Sparrman, Anders
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sparrman, Anders Erikson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish doctor, botanist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Tensta , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1820
Place of death Stockholm