Sextus Otto Lindberg

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Sextus Otto Lindberg (born March 29, 1835 in Stockholm , † February 20, 1889 in Helsinki ) was a Swedish doctor and botanist specializing in bryology . Its botanical author's abbreviation is “ Lindb. "

Life

Lindberg was born in Stockholm and trained in Uppsala . He worked in the Grand Duchy of Finland, then part of the Russian Empire . He became Professor of Botany and Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Helsinki .

Lindberg died in Helsinki. His son was the botanist Harald Lindberg (1871–1963).

Honors

In honor of Lindberg, the genus Lindbergia from the Leskeaceae family was named, which the Swedish bryologist Nils Conrad Kindberg described in 1897. The genus Lindbergella in the Poaceae family, which was described in 1969 by Norman Bor , was named after Lindberg's son Harald .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Midland Naturalist. Volume 11-12, 1888, p. 94 ( archive.org ).
  2. ^ Arild Stubhaug: Gösta Mittag-Leffler: A Man of Conviction . Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-11672-8 , pp. 205 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Arild Stubhaug: Gösta Mittag-Leffler: A Man of Conviction . Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-11672-8 , pp. 240 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. a b Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . Taylor & Francis, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4200-0322-2 , pp. 1226 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - 3 Volume Set).