Vivi Laurent-Täckholm

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Vivi Laurent-Täckholm

Vivi Laurent-Täckholm (born January 7, 1898 in Danderyd , † May 3, 1978 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish botanist and children's book author . Your official botanical author abbreviation is “ Täckh. "

Life

Vivi Laurent was the daughter of the doctor Wilhelm Edvard Laurent and Lilly Jenny Karolina Bergstrand. She studied botany at Stockholm University and graduated in 1921. From 1921 to 1923 she toured the United States . During this time she wrote extensive letters to her family, which were later published in two books Vivis resa (1923) and Vivis resa II (1924). She published her first children's book Sagan om Snipp, Snapp, Snorum in 1925.

Laurent married the botanist Gunnar Täckholm (1891–1933) in 1926 . In the same year she moved to Egypt with him, where she and her husband did research on the historical and modern flora of Egypt. Her main work Flora of Egypt, Volume 1 was published in 1941, seven years after her husband's death.

career

During the Second World War she returned to Sweden and worked for a newspaper in Stockholm. After the end of the war she moved back to Egypt. She was appointed professor of botany at Cairo University in 1946 and at Alexandria University in 1947 . A year later she returned to Cairo University. She received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Stockholm University in 1952 .

Laurent-Täckholm devoted most of her career to studying and teaching about the flora of Egypt. She built a modern, well-equipped botanical institute at the University of Cairo and collected around 100,000 plants from all over the world in her herbarium . Her collection focused on plants from Egypt, Lebanon, Arabia and Sudan. This made it the largest herbarium in Africa.

Thanks to their Swedish contacts, the Agricultural Academy in Stockholm sent a 700 kg literary library and Gustav VI. Adolf of Sweden financed the purchase of foreign literature. SIDA donated a microfilm collection of more than half a million book pages and herbarium samples. Thanks to the Knut and Alice Wallenbergs Foundation at Stockholm University, the university was able to set up a laboratory for pollen analysis including an electron microscope. During Laurent-Täckholm's time there were about 20 professors and other lecturers teaching in the department, and over 2000 students studied there.

Vivi Laurent-Täckholm died on a trip to Sweden on May 3, 1978 in Stockholm. Her grave is in Uppsala .

Selection of publications

  • Vivis resa . Ett år som piga från New York till San Francisco, 1923
  • Vivis resa II . Från Saltsjöbaden till Pacifikens stränder, 1924
  • Sagan om Snipp, Snapp, Snorum (1926)
  • En skolflicka berättar , 1927
  • Katt: en kärlekssaga berättad och tecknad, 1936
  • Som husmor i Egypt , 1937
  • Bättre än svarta stock exchange : Vivi advised hur hon lever gott och riktigt på kupongerna. Utg. av Husmodern. [Recepten av Capucine. Illustr. av Gunila bull garnet], 1942
  • Husmodern's blomsterlexikon , vol I o II, 1946
  • Hemmet blommar, en liten handbok i krukväxtodlin , 1949
  • Faraos blomster: en kulturhistorisk-botanisk skildring av livet i Gamla Egypt , 1951
  • Våra hav: En bok för stora och små , pictures av Veronica Leo , 1978
  • Öknen blommar , 1969
  • Lillans resa till månen: En saga för stora och små , pictures av Veronica Leo, 1976
  • Egypt i närbild , 1964
  • Sagan's minareter: En bok om islam , 1971
  • Levande forntid: Strövtåg i Kairomuseet , 1967
  • Egyptisk vardag , 1966
  • Faraos barn: Kopterna i Egypt , 1965
  • Students Flora of Egypt . 2: a utgåvan tryckt i Beirut 1974. Publ. Av Universitetet i Cairo. En green "bible" på 888 sidor!

literature

  • Irma Ridbäck: Vivi Täckholm - botanist and cultural institution , 1994
  • Beata Arnborg : Professor Vivi - the sagolica botanist , Bokförlaget Atlantis, Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-7353-217-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Vivi Täckholm. In: librarything.com. Retrieved April 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Vivi Täckholm's efterlämnade papper. Förteckning. In: ediffah.org. Retrieved April 17, 2018 .
  3. ^ Berit Norstedt (March 15, 1970). "Vivi Täckholm, a rare place i den egyptiska floran". Dagens Nyheter.
  4. ↑ Sök gravsatt på SvenskaGravar.se. In: svenskagravar.se. Retrieved April 17, 2018 (sv-SE).

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personal data
SURNAME Laurent-Täckholm, Vivi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laurent, Vivi (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish botanist and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Danderyd
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1978
Place of death Stockholm