Robert Elias Fries

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Robert Elias Fries
Grave of Robert E. Fries on the Norra begravningsplatsen in Solna

Klas Robert Elias Fries (born July 11, 1876 in Uppsala , Sweden , † January 29, 1966 in Stockholm , Sweden) was a Swedish botanist and mycologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ REFr. "

Life

Fries comes from a family of prominent mycologists, lichenologists, and botanists. His grandfather Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878) was an expert on mushrooms. His father Theodor Magnus Fries (1832-1913) was a botanist and lichenologist. His younger brother Thore Christian Elias Fries (1886–1930) was Professor of Vegetation Geography and Palynology at Lund University . His eldest son Magnus Fries (1917–1987) was professor of plant biology at Uppsala University and chairman of the Swedish Linnaeus Society from 1980 to 1985. His uncle Nils Fries (1912–1994) was president of the student nation of Smålands nation an from 1961 to 1970 from Uppsala University.

In 1894 Fries was a student at Uppsala University , where he obtained a licentiate in philosophy in 1901 . In 1905 he received his doctorate in philosophy and became a lecturer in botany . From 1902 to 1903 he worked as a curator in the Regnellian-Herbarium des Naturhistoriska riksmuseet . From 1904 to 1907 he was an assistant at the Uppsala Botanical Garden . From 1908 to 1911 he lectured at a public university in Uppsala. In 1913 he was qualified as a professor. In 1915 he received the title of Professor Bergianus from the Bergian Foundation and became director of Bergianska trädgården , the Stockholm Botanical Garden. He held this office until 1944. In 1916 he married Nanna Curman, the daughter of Professor Carl Curman (1833-1913) and the author Calla Curman , née Lundström (1850-1935).

In addition to trips to Sweden and Spain, Fries undertook research trips to South America and Africa. In 1901 he accompanied Baron Erland Nordenskiöld on an expedition to the Gran Chaco and to the mountain ranges in Argentina and Bolivia. In 1902 he returned to Uppsala with an extensive collection of seed plants, mushrooms and algae. From 1911 to 1912 he and Eric von Rosen toured the entire African continent from the Cape of Good Hope to Alexandria . Especially from Central Africa he brought together an extensive collection of plant material. From 1921 to 1922 Fries went on a collective expedition to East Africa .

Fries initially devoted himself to the taxonomy of South American taxa from the groups of Columniferae (today Malvaceae ), Annonaceae , Amaranthaceae and slime molds . In 1905 he wrote his dissertation on the vegetation geography of Argentina with the title On the knowledge of the alpine flora in northern Argentina . In other works, Fries dealt with biological, morphological and embryonic topics. In 1907 he published a commemorative publication for the 300th birthday of Carl von Linné with the title De största märkesmännen . In later years he dealt with the African flora, in particular in his work Botanical Investigations (the Swedish Rhodesia-Congo Expedition) , (3 parts, 1914-1916), where he dealt with taxonomic, ecological and vegetation-geographical content.

In 1926 Fries was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . From 1939 to 1940 he was chairman and from 1942 to 1951 he was vice-chairman of this learned society. In 1927 he became a member of the Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien . In 1938 he became a member of the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund and in 1950 a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala . Fries was also a member of the British Mycological Society and worked with the Botanical Museum of Uppsala University, the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem , the Natural History Museum London, the Meise Botanical Garden in Brussels, Belgium, the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève , the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) , the Department of Seed Plants at Naturhistoriska riksmuseet and with the United States National Herbarium of the Smithsonian Institution .

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SURNAME Fries, Robert Elias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fries, Klas Robert Elias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish botanist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1966
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden