Goran Rothman
Göran (Georg) Rothman (born November 30, 1739 in Husebybruk Småland , † December 3, 1778 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish naturalist and doctor. Its botanical author abbreviation is " Rothman ".
Life
His father Johan Stensson Rothman was a professor of logic and physics at the school in Växjö. Even Linnaeus went to school there. Georg Rothman studied at Uppsala University from 1757 , where he did his doctorate under Carl von Linné (Linnaeus). On May 27, 1763 he defended his dissertation on the subject: Raphania .
His research took him to the Åland Islands in 1765 and to Libya and Tunisia from 1773 to 1776 . After his return he worked as a doctor in Stockholm. He was also known as a translator of Voltaire (1694–1778) and Alexander Pope (1688–1744) into Swedish.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Göran Rothman at the IPNI
- Dissertation by Göran Rothman ( Memento from July 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6 MB)
- Short biography
- Goran Rothman . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 375 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
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| SURNAME | Rothman, Goran |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rothman, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish naturalist and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1739 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Husebybruk Småland |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 1778 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |