Samuel Liljeblad

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Samuel Liljeblad (born December 20, 1761 in Mösjöholt , Södra Vi församling , Kalmar län ; † April 1, 1815 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Lilj. ".

Liljeblad studied from 1782 in Uppsala with a master’s degree in 1789. From 1788 he undertook a botanical collecting trip to Lapland, of which a diary exists. Afterwards he was an assistant at the natural history cabinet in Uppsala. In 1793 he received his doctorate in medicine in Uppsala. In 1796 he became adjunct and in 1802 Borgström professor for practical economics at Uppsala University . In 1810 he was the rector of the university.

In 1809 Liljeblad married Johanna Christina Ekfors.

As a medical student in Uppsala, he did a lot of botany and supervised excursions, for which he published a Swedish directory of the plants of his homeland (with descriptions and explanations of terms), which was well received and appeared in print in 1792. It was an expanded Swedish edition of the Flora Suecica by Carl von Linné , but in contrast to Linné, it was also accessible to non-Latin readers. It saw many new editions.

Fonts

  • Utkast till en svensk Flora, 1792, 3rd edition by JH Wallman 1816
  • Diarium för en Lappsk Resa Anträdd d. 29 maji 1788, editors Karin Snellman and Margit Wennstedt, Forskningsarkivet, Umeå Universitet 1997, pdf

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personal data
SURNAME Liljeblad, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Mösjöholt , Södra Vi församling , Kalmar län
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1815
Place of death Uppsala