Franz Pehr Oldenburg

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Franz Pehr Oldenburg (* 1740 ; † 1774 in Madagascar ) was a Swedish plant collector .

Live and act

Franz Pehr Oldenburg joined the Danish East India Company as a Swedish soldier .

He accompanied Francis Masson on his first voyage from December 10, 1772 to January 1773 at the Cape of Good Hope and, together with Carl Peter Thunberg, also took part in Francis Masson's second voyage to Port Elizabeth . In 1774 Oldenburg went to Madagascar on Thunberg's recommendation to collect plants. He died there that same year of a vicious fever.

Honor taxon

Christian Friedrich Lessing named the genus Oldenburgia Less in his honor . of the Asteraceae plant family.

literature

  • WJ de Kock, DW Krüger, CJ Beyers (Editor): Dictionary of South African Biography . Vol. IV, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria 1968-1987.
  • Mary Gunn, LEW Codd: Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa. An Illustrated History of Early Botanical Literature on the Cape Flora . CRC Press, 1981, ISBN 0869611291
  • Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . CRC Press Inc., 2000, p. 1863

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Peter Thunberg : Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779 . Volume 1, p. 316
  2. ^ Carl Peter Thunberg: Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779 . Volume 2, p. 133
  3. ↑ Linnaea. A journal for botany in its entirety . Volume 5, p. 252, Berlin 1830 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Oldenburg, Franz Pehr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oldenburg, Frans Petter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish plant collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1740
DATE OF DEATH 1774
Place of death in Madagascar