Daniel Solander

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Daniel Solander

Daniel Carlsson Solander (born February 19, 1733 in Piteå , Sweden ; † May 13, 1782 in London ) was a Swedish botanist who took part in the first voyage of James Cook (1768–1771). Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Sol. "

Live and act

His parents were the school principal Carl Solander and his wife Magdalena Bostadia Solander. Daniel Solander was a student with good grades and enrolled at Uppsala University at the age of 17 to study botany under the famous scientist Carl von Linné . In 1759 Solander traveled to England and made a name for himself there. In 1764 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Together with the botanist Joseph Banks , he took part in the first circumnavigation of the world by James Cook (1768-1771). In 1772 the two botanists went on a trip to Iceland , the Hebrides and the Orkney Islands. In the same year he became a corresponding member of the Académie royale des sciences .

Together with Joseph Banks, he described thousands of new species of plants, animals and insects, mainly from the South Seas , Australia and New Zealand .

Solander invented the Solander box in London .

Honors

The plant genus Solandra Sw. from the nightshade family (Solanaceae) and the Solander petrel are named after him, as well as the Solander Islands , discovered on March 11, 1770 off the South Island of New Zealand. In 1832, Georges Cuvier named a species of the snake mackerel in Australia Gempylus (now Rexea ) solandri .

Works

  • with Joseph Banks : Illustration of the botany of Captain Cook's voyage round the world in HMS 'Endeavor' in 1768–1771 . (published posthumously 1900–1905).
  • The Natural History of Many Curious and Uncommon Zoophytes, Collected by the late John Ellis . (published posthumously in 1786).

literature

  • Joseph Banks : About Solander. In: Berlin monthly journal . Volume 6, Berlin 1785, pp. 240-249. (on-line)
  • Wilfrid Blunt, William T. Stearn: Captain Cook's Florilegium: A Selection of Engravings from the Drawings of Plants Collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook's First Voyage to the Islands of the Pacific. ISBN 0-902490-12-5 .
  • Edward Duyker , Per Tingbrand (Ed.): Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1753–1782 . Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1995, ISBN 0-522-84636-X . (Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, 1995, ISBN 82-00-22454-6 )
  • Edward Duyker: Nature's Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733–1782, Naturalist and Voyager with Cook and Banks . Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1998/1999, ISBN 0-522-84753-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Solander, Daniel Charles (1733 - 1782) in the archives of the Royal Society , London
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 3, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ 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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Solander, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solander, Daniel Carlsson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish botanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Piteå , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1782
Place of death London