Claes Alströmmer
Claes Alströmer , also Clas Alströmer , Klas Alströmer and Klaus Alströmer (born August 9, 1736 in Alingsås , † March 5, 1794 in Gåsevadsholm ) was a Swedish merchant and naturalist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Alstr. ".
Live and act
Claes Alströmmer, a son of Jonas Alströmer and Margareta Clason, studied natural history , chemistry and economics in Uppsala . Carl von Linné and Johan Gottschalk Wallerius were among his teachers . In addition to his commercial activities, Alströmer carried out study trips to southern and western Europe and cultivated plants he had brought with him in his private botanical garden. Between 1760 and 1764 he visited southern Spain , France , Italy , Germany , the Netherlands and England, among others. In 1778 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Claes Alströmer was married to Sara Katarina Sahlgren.
Honor taxon
Carl von Linné named the plant genus Alstroemeria after him , the type genus of the family of the incalilliary plants .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Claes Alströmer at the IPNI
- Correspondence between Claes Alströmer and Carl von Linné
- Biography in Swedish ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 4.49 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 25.
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| SURNAME | Alström, Claes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alström, Clas; Alströmmer, Klas; Alström, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish businessman and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1736 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alingsås |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1794 |
| Place of death | Gåsevadsholm |