Johan Browall

Johann Browall

Browallia on panel XVII. in Carl von Linné: Hortus Cliffortianus , 1st edition, 1737. Drawing and engraving by Georg Dionysius Ehret

Johan Browall , Latinized Johan Browallius (born August 30, 1707 in Västerås , † July 25, 1755 in Åbo ) was a Swedish doctor , botanist , politician and bishop .

Live and act

Johan Browall was the son of the professor Anders Browall (1685-1720) and his wife Katarina Sigtunius. After the death of his father he went to Uppsala and enrolled at Uppsala University on February 18, 1720 . He studied a. a. with Eric Alstrin (1683–1762) and Laurentius Arrhenius (1680–1730). In 1731 he became a master of philosophy under Anders Grönvall (1671–1758) .

In Falun he was the teacher of the sons of Nils Reuterholm (1676–1756), who was the governor of Dalarna Province . Here he also met Carl von Linné , who spent the turn of the year 1732/33 at the invitation of his friend Claes Sohlberg (1711–1773) in Falun.

In 1737 Browall became professor of natural history at the Åbo Academy . Numerous works in the fields of botany, chemistry, physics and mineralogy were carried out under his direction. One of his students wrote, for example, about the genus Convallaria ( De Convallariae species, vulgo Lilium Convallium dicta ), another dealt with the pollination processes in plants ( Harmonia fructificationis plantarum cum generatione animalium ).

In the work Examen Epicriseos published in 1739, he defended Linnaeus' sexual system of plants against the accusations made by Johann Georg Siegesbeck .

In 1746 Johan Browall became professor of theology and provost at Åbo Cathedral . Three years later, in 1749, he was installed there as bishop .

Browall was married to Elisabet (née Ehrenholm, 1707–1779) since February 12, 1738. She was the daughter of the government archivist and budget secretary Johann Christian Kippius von Ehrenholm (born around 1663, Johan Kristoffer Kippius, Adlad Ehrenholm) from Bremen-Verden . The couple had a daughter Elisabeth Browallius, who later married Johan Gadolin, their son was Johan Gadolin .

Honor taxon

Carl von Linné named the genus Browallia of the nightshade family (Solanaceae) in his honor .

Works (selection)

De foederibus Christianorum cum infidelibus meletema philosophicum…. Stockholm 1730 - Dissertation ← as Car.
Oskyldig mål-ro, eller, förnöjliga together with hwarjehanda lärda and nyttiga saker. Them ro-älskandom til roande på lediga stunder, Horat. de arte poët. Stockholm 1731.
Förnuftigt och nöjsamt samtal goda wänner emellan om allhanda saker. 1732.
Tankar öfwer naturkunnigheten, och huru then bör drifwas wid en academia. Stockholm, tryckte hos Peter Jöransson Nyström. Stockholm 1737.
Discursus de introducenda in scholas et gymnasia praecipue vero in gymnasium Arosiense historiae naturalis lectione, ad generosissimum Dalekarliae gubernatorem, lib. bar. de Reuterholm, et reverendissimum Arosiensem episcopum doct. Andr. Kalsenium. Leiden 1737.
Examen epicriseos in Systema plantarum sexuale Cl. Linnaei, Anno 1737 Petropoli evulgatae, auctore Jo. Georgio Siegesbeck. 1739.
Specimen botan. de convallariae specie, vulgo lilium convallium dicta: ex occasione loci Cantic. Stockholm 1741.
Försök, rön ock anmärkningar angående arseniken och i synnerhet des metalliska natur, framgifne. Stockholm 1744.
Oförgripeliga tankar om underwisnings-warket, vid gymnasier och scholarne i riket. Stockholm, 1751 (published anonymously).

literature

EG Palmén: Browallius, Johan . In: Nils Linder (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 2 : Barometer capitularis . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1878, Sp. 1181 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
KJ Warburg: Browallius, Johan . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 4 : Brant-Cesti . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1905, Sp. 301-302 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Brovallius, Johan . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 141 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
AM Diemer: Browallius, Johan . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 4 : Bridge-Cikader . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1916, p. 93 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
G. Jacobson: Johan Browallius. In: Volume 6: Brant – Bygdén. Bonnier, Stockholm 1926, p. 468 ( sok.riksarkivet.se . With contributions by S. Birger, AG Högbom and Sv. Oden).

Web links

Exchange of letters from Johan Browall to Carl von Linné

Literature by and about Johan Browall in the catalog of the Thuringian University and State Library

swell

Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640-1852 (Swedish)
Linnaeus in Dalarna

Individual evidence

↑ The life data of Laurentius Arrhenius (also Lars Arrhenius).
↑ Claes Sohlberg's life data .
↑ NLA ST Rep. 5a No. 589 - Swearing in of members ... Arcinsys Lower Saxony, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92.
↑ Carl von Linné: Hortus Cliffortianus . Leiden 1737, p. 319.
↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 301.

personal data
SURNAME	Browall, Johan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Browallius, Johan; Browall, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish doctor, botanist, politician and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH	Västerås
DATE OF DEATH	July 25, 1755
Place of death	Åbo

[1] The life data of Laurentius Arrhenius (also Lars Arrhenius).

[2] Claes Sohlberg's life data .

[3] NLA ST Rep. 5a No. 589 - Swearing in of members ... Arcinsys Lower Saxony, accessed on June 12, 2019 .

[4] Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92.

[5] Carl von Linné: Hortus Cliffortianus . Leiden 1737, p. 319.

[6] Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 301.