Carl Adolph Agardh

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Carl Adolph Agardh
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Carl Adolph Agardh (born January 23, 1785 in Båstad , † January 28, 1859 in Karlstad ) was a Swedish botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " C.Agardh ".

Life

Carl Adolph Agardh was born in 1785 as the son of the merchant Georg Mikaelsson Agardh (1746-1809) and his wife Agneta Kristina (née Ollman).

Agardh studied from 1799 natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Lund , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1805. He stayed at the university, became a lecturer in mathematics, botany and economics from 1807 and finally professor of botany and economics in 1812. In 1819/20 he was rector of the university. In the following years he devoted himself to botanical research and, encouraged by his colleague Olof Peter Swartz , concentrated in particular on cryptogamics .

In 1816 he was ordained and became a pastor in St. Peter's Monastery in Lund without giving up his professorship. In 1819 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1834 he was appointed bishop in Karlstad .

With his writings Agardh gave essential impulses for the systematics of the algae in his time.

Agardh also wrote treatises on questions of political economy , was a member of his pen in the Reichstag and a member of the education committee appointed in 1827 and 1828. In this role he had a major influence on the reform of the Swedish school system that was being carried out at the time.

He was married to Margareta Charlotta (nee Lindschough, June 16, 1796 - November 11, 1868) since October 2, 1812. She was a daughter of Jakob Lindschough. Agardh's most famous descendants include his son Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901), also a botanist, and his grandson Gustaf Fröding , one of the most important Swedish poets of the 1890s.

Honors

The algae genera Agardhia Gray and Agardhina Nardo have been named in honor of Carl Adolph Agardh .

Fonts (selection)

  • Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae. Lund 1817.
  • Species algarum rite cognitae etc. das. U. Greifswald 1823–1828, 2 volumes.
  • Icones algarum europaearum. Leipzig 1828–1835.
  • Systema algarum. Lund 1824.
  • Essai de réduire la physlologie végétale à des principes fondamentaux. Lund 1828.
  • Essai sur le développement intérieur des plantes. that. 1829.
  • Lärobok i botany. Malmö 1830–1832, 2 volumes; German, 1st part: Organography of plants. by L. v. Meyer, Copenhagen 1831; Part 2: General Biology of Plants. from Creplin , Greifswald 1832.
  • Försök till en statsökonomisk statistik öfver Sverige. with Ljungberg, Stockholm 1852–1863, 4 vols.

literature

  • Agardh, Carl Adolf . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 13 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • C. Hansen Ostenfeld: Agardh [ ↱ a.gard], Carl Adolf . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A – Arbejdergilder . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1915, p. 295-296 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  • AB Carlsson, G. Eneström, K. Nordlund, Edv. Rodhe, N. Svedelins: Carl Adolph Agardh. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Volume 1: Abelin – Anjou. Bonnier, Stockholm 1918, p. 250 ff. (Detailed biography, Swedish, sok.riksarkivet.se ).
  • Lars M. Andersson: Agardh, Carl Adolph. In: Handbook of Antisemitism . Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 3 ff.

Web links

Commons : Carl Adolph Agardh  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
 Wikispecies: Carl Adolph Agardh  - Species Directory

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agardh, Carl Adolph. Swedish Academy, accessed June 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ Member entry by Karl Adolph Agardh at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names. Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. bgbm.org
personal data
SURNAME Agardh, Carl Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agardh, Carl Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Båstad
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1859
Place of death Karlstad