Magnus Lagerström (entrepreneur)

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Carl Magnus von Lagerström (born December 16, 1691 in Stettin , † July 5, 1759 in Gothenburg ) was a Swedish entrepreneur and director of the Swedish East India Company .

Life

His parents were the Swedish-Pomeranian Chancellor Magnus Gabriel Laurin (1666-1736, ennobled in 1691 as von Lagerström ) and Helena Engelcrona (* 1672 in Sweden; † 1725).

After Magnus von Lagerström junior had studied in Rostock , Greifswald , Wittenberg and Jena , he became general government secretary in Stettin in 1712 and moved from Stettin to Stralsund in 1713 , where he was a councilor until 1721 . Then he moved to Stockholm , where he worked as a proofreader in the Wildeska printing house in 1725. In 1731 he went to Gothenburg and was the accountant and treasurer of the newly founded Swedish East India Company for the first few years. In 1733 Magnus von Lagerström junior married Klara Olbers (* 1713 in Gothenburg; † July 18, 1778 ibid), daughter of a respected merchant family in Gothenburg.

At the age of 52 he became secretary of the Swedish East India Company in 1743 and took part in the company's East India voyage to China from 1743–45. From this trip he brought back plants that were unknown in Europe for the botanist Carl von Linné , who named one of them after him "Lagerstroemia indica" ( camp currents ). Thanks to Lagerström, students from Linnaeus 'environment ( Linnaeus' apostle ) could take part in such trips free of charge. In 1746 Magnus von Lagerström junior became director of the Swedish East India Company. He was a man with universal scientific education , who also worked as a translator of literary texts into Swedish and, among other things, published the invention of a cultivator at the Swedish Academy of Sciences . In 1748 and 1750 he gave away parts of his large collection of natural objects to Linnaeus, who dedicated his scientific work “Donatio Magni Lagerström” to him.

Magnus von Lagerström died childless in Gothenburg in 1759, so that his Pomeranian fiefs passed to the family members who remained in Pomerania .

literature

  • Magnus Lagerström . 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. 14 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Paepke: On the 300th birthday of Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778). In: Der Makropode - 29th year - 4/2007. 2007, archived from the original on December 24, 2009 ; accessed on March 24, 2020 (with further references).