Peter Jonas Bergius
Peter Jonas Bergius (born July 6, 1730 in Eriksstad, Småland province , † July 10, 1790 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish physician and scientist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " PJBergius ".
Life
Peter Jonas Bergius was the youngest of seven children. The parents died early. At the age of 16 he went to Lund University , initially to study theology. He later went to Uppsala and studied botany and medicine with Carl von Linné and Nils Rosén von Rosenstein . In 1755 he went to Stockholm and opened a medical practice. He published books and publications on medicine and botany. In 1761, a professorship for natural history and pharmacy was established for Bergius at the Collegium medicum . In 1758 he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences , 1767 a member of the Leopoldina , 1778 a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and 1785 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In December 1776 he was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
Together with his brother Bengt (1723–1784) Bergius founded the Bergianska trädgården in Stockholm .
Honors
In his honor, the plant genera Bergia L. and Bergella (A.Gray) Schnizl. named from the family of the Tännelgewächse (Elatinaceae).
literature
Web links
- Works by and about Peter Jonas Bergius in the German Digital Library
- Consortium of European Research Libraries : Bergius, Peter Jonas (1730–1790) Catalog of works
- Bergius Botanic Garden
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Peter Jonas Bergius at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by Peter Jonas Berg at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 29, 2016.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 36.
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Bergius, Peter Jonas. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 30, 2019 (Russian).
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergius, Peter Jonas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | PJBergius (botanical author abbreviation) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish physician and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1730 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eriksstad |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1790 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |