Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg

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Carl Skottsberg with his wife Inga
Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in October 1901 on board the Antarctic (from left to right): Carl Skottsberg, Otto Nordenskjöld, Karl Andersson, Carl Anton Larsen , Erik Ekelöf, Axel Ohlin , Gösta Bodman.

Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg (born December 1, 1880 in Karlshamn , † June 14, 1963 in Gothenburg ) was a Swedish botanist and explorer of the Antarctic . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Skottsb. "

Life

Skottsberg was the son of the headmaster Carl Adolf Skottsberg and his wife Maria Lovisa (née Pfeiffer). He first enrolled at the University of Stockholm and then studied from 1898 to 1907 at Uppsala University , where he received his first academic degree in 1901 and also lectured. From 1901 to 1903 he took part in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld . In 1907 he received his doctorate with the text To the knowledge of the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic marine algae and led the Swedish expedition to Patagonia from 1907 to 1909 .

From 1909 to 1914 he was a curator and curator at the Botanical Museum at Uppsala University. From 1919 he was director of the botanical garden. As a scientist he examined the plants and vegetation zones of the Antarctic, Subantarctis, South American and the Pacific region. He published his own writings and also contributed to community articles and books. He played a significant part in the multi-volume series Växternas liv: Populousvetenskaplig handbok , which appeared from 1932 to 1940 and for which he wrote the introductions and classifications of the newly discovered plants.

Skottsberg was married to Inga Margareta Skottsberg (born Reuter, 1888–1985) and had three children. His daughter Brita Skottsberg Åhman (1910-1993) studied political science and completed her studies with a dissertation on Austrian parliamentarianism. From 1946 to 1948 she worked for Herbert Tingsten at the Institute for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm and was a member of the Swedish delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations. As a translator from German, she transferred, among other things, the diaries of Joseph Goebbels and the minutes of the negotiations against Adolf Eichmann . She was married to Sven Åhman (1907-1993).

Honors

Skottsberg was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , from 1949 honorary member ( Honorary Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and from 1950 a foreign member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society . In 1959 he was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London .

The plant genera Skottsbergianthus Boelcke from the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae), Skottsbergiliana H.St.John from the cucurbitaceae family , the moss genus Skottsbergia Cardot and the mushroom genus Skottsbergiella Petr are named after him . He is also the namesake for Cape Skottsberg on Trinity Island in Antarctica and Mount Skottsberg on South Georgia in the South Atlantic. The Lago Skottsberg in the Torres del Paine National Park , Chile , is named after him .

Fonts (selection)

  • O. Nordenskjöld, JG Anderson, CA Larsen, C. Skottsberg: "Antarctic": two years in snow and ice at the South Pole. Berlin 1904.
  • Some remarks upon the geographical distribution of vegetation in the colder Southern Hemisphere. In: Ymer. Volume 25, Issue 4, 1905, pp. 402–427 ( runeberg.org , with maps “Vegetation zones around the South Pole”, panel 7 and “Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia”, panel 8 ).
  • Vegetation pictures from Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Fischer, Jena 1907.
  • Studies of Plant Life in the Falkland Islands. Lithograph Inst. Of the General Staff, Stockholm a. a. 1909 (= Scientific results of the Swedish South Polar Expedition. 4, 10).
  • Botanical results of the Swedish expedition to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego 1907–1909. Almqvist & Wiksells, Uppsala / Stockholm 1910.
  • Vegetation pictures from the Juan Fernandez Islands. Fischer, Jena 1911.
  • Morphological and embryological studies of the myzodendraen. Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala [u. a.] 1913.
  • Myzodendraceae. Engelmann, Leipzig [a. a.] 1914.
  • The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island. 1921.
  • Communities of marine algae in subantarctic and antarctic waters. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1941.
  • Plant succession on recent lava flows in the island of Hawaii. Gothenburg 1941.

literature

  • CAM Lindman: Skottsberg, Karl Johan Fredrik . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 25 : Sekt – Slöjskifling . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1917, Sp. 1180 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • CAM Lindman: Skottsberg, Karl JF In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 38 : Supplement: Riksdagens bibliotek – Öyen; tillägg . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1926, Sp. 368 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • CH Ostenfeld: Skottsberg ['skåtsbærj], Carl Johan Fredrik . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 21 : Schinopsis spectrum . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1926, p. 630 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  • Bengt Åhlén: Skottsberg, Carl Johan Fredrik. In: Svenskt författarlexikon. Volume 2: 1941-1950. P. 552 ( runeberg.org ).
  • Edward J. Salisbury: Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg. 1880-1963 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . tape 10 , November 30, 1964, ISSN  0080-4606 , p. 245-256 , doi : 10.1098 / rsbm.1964.0015 , JSTOR : 769322 (English).
  • B. Peterson: Carl Skottsberg, 1880-1963 . In: Taxon . tape 13 , no. 1 , February 1964, ISSN  0040-0262 , p. 1-7 , JSTOR : 1216772 (English, obituary).
  • Bengt Jonsell: Carl JF Skottsberg. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Volume 32: Sehlstedt – Sparre. Bonnier, Stockholm 2006, p 481 ( sok.riksarkivet.se ).
  • Stefan Heijtz: Skottsberg, Carl Johan Fredrik 1880–1963 . In: David Tatham (ed.): The dictionary of Falklands biography (including South Georgia): from discovery up to 1981 . D. Tatham, Ledbury, Hereford 2008, ISBN 978-0-9558985-0-1 ( falklandsbiographies.org ).

Web links

Commons : Carl Skottsberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg: To the knowledge of the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic marine algae I. Phaeophyceen . Ed .: Lithographic Institute of the General Staff (=  Svenska sydpolar expeditions, 1901–1903. = Scientific results of the Swedish South Pole Expedition, 1901–1903 ). University Press, Stockholm 1907 (university publication).
  2. ↑ Bengt Åhlén: Skottsberg (-Åhman), Brita. In: Svenskt författarlexikon. Volume 2: 1941-1950. P. 551 ( runeberg.org ).
  3. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Skottsberg, Carl Johan Fredrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlshamn , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1963
Place of death Gothenburg