Pehr Osbeck

Pehr Osbeck (undated)

Pehr Osbeck ( pronunciation : [ ˌpæːʁ ˈuːsbɛk ], * May 9, 1723 in Socken Hålanda, today Ale community ; † December 23, 1805 in Hasslöv ) was a Swedish pastor, world traveler and naturalist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Osbeck ".

Life

Osbeck named himself after the small place Oset in which he was born. His parents were Hans Andersson, who had died in the boy's first years, and his wife Ragnhild (née Andersdotter). He began studying at Uppsala University in 1745, supported by benevolent supporters, and in the same year became a student of Carl von Linné . From 1750 to 1752, initially employed as a ship priest, he took part in a trip to East Asia and China that took him to the region around Canton and the island of Java . When he returned, he had 900 new plant species with him and presented them to Carl von Linné. In 1760 he was appointed pastor in Hasslöv in the province of Halland , in 1773 provost and in 1778 doctor of theology. Osbeck had been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1758 and was one of the founding members of the Royal Science and Literature Society in Gothenburg . On April 15, 1772 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Philolaus Crotoniensis (matriculation no. 767).

Osbeck was married to Susanna Dahlberg and had a son, Karl Gustaf Osbeck (1766–1841), who became a doctor.

Honors

Osbeckia chinensis

In honor of Osbeck, the genera Osbeckia L. and Osbeckiastrum Naudin from the black- mouthed plant family (Melastomataceae) were named.

Works

Dagbok öfwer en ostindisk resa åren 1750. 1751. 1752. Med anmärkningar uti naturkunnigheten, främmande folkslags språk, seder, hushållning. Stockholm 1757 ( archive.org ).
Fragmenta ichthyologiae Hispanicae. In: Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum. Volume 4, Nuremberg, 1770, pp. 99-104.
Utkast til beskrifning öfver Laholms prosteri . 1796 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

literature

1. Osbeck, Per . 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. 238 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Carl Axel Magnus Lindman : Osbeck. 1. Per O. In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 20 : Norrsken – Paprocki . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1914, Sp. 988-989 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Otto Gertz: De första iakttagelserna i Sverige angående bändelkorsnäbben (Loxia leucoptera Gmel. Bifasciata Brehm.) . In: Fauna and Flora . 14th year, issue 4, 1919, p. 159-162 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Pehr Osbeck. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Volume 28: Odeberg – Pederby. 1994, p. 365 ( sok.riksarkivet.se ).

Web links

Author entry and list of the plant names described for Pehr Osbeck at the IPNI
Correspondence between Pehr Osbeck and Carl von Linné
Scan of his diary Dagbok öfwer en ostindisk resa åren (original)
Scan of his diary Journey to East India and China translated into German by JG Georgi, Rostock: Koppe, 1765
Member Post by Pehr Osbeck in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on August 6, 2017th

Individual evidence

^ Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. 1860, p. 230 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Osbeck. 2. Karl Gustaf O. In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 20 : Norrsken – Paprocki . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1914, Sp. 989 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
^ Benjamin Daydon Jackson: Index to the Linnean Herbarium - with indication of the types of species marked by Carl von Linné . Taylor and Francis, London 1912, p. 16 and 111 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ 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 .

personal data
SURNAME	Osbeck, Pehr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish pastor, world traveler and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ale (parish)
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 1805
Place of death	Hasslöv

[1] Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. 1860, p. 230 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Osbeck. 2. Karl Gustaf O. In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 20 : Norrsken – Paprocki . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1914, Sp. 989 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

[3] Benjamin Daydon Jackson: Index to the Linnean Herbarium - with indication of the types of species marked by Carl von Linné . Taylor and Francis, London 1912, p. 16 and 111 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[Burkhardt_2018-4] 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 .