Carl Adolph Agardh
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Carl Adolph Agardh (13 January 1785, Båstad, Sweden - 28 January 1859, Karlstad) was a Swedish botanistspecializing in algae, who was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad.
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Biography
In 1807 he was appointed teacher of
mathematics at Lund
University, in 1812 appointed
professor of botany and natural sciences,[1] and was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1817, and of the Swedish Academy in 1831.
He was ordained a clergyman in 1816,
received two parishes as prebend, and was a representative in the clerical chamber of
the Swedish
Parliament on several
occasions from 1817. He was rector magnificus of Lund University 1819-1820 and was appointed
bishop of Karlstad in 1835, where he remained until his death.[2]
Publications
He devoted considerable attention to political economy and as "a leading liberal", he
"succeeded in improving and raising the standards of education in
Sweden".[3]He also wrote on theological and other subjects, but
his reputation chiefly rests on his botanical works, especially Systema algarum, Species algarum rite cognitae, and Icones Algarum (1824, 1820–28,
and 1828–35). The greatest part of his Manual of Botany (2
vols., Malmoe, 1829–32) has been translated into German.[1]
The standard author abbreviation C.Agardh is used to indicate this
individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]
Other works available online
- Algarum decas prima [-quarta] /auctore
Carolo Ad. Agardh
- Dispositio algarum Sueciae
/cuctore Carolo Adolfo Agardh
- Caroli A. Agardh
Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae : adjecta dispositione universali
algarum
- Aphorismi
botanici.
- Classes plantarum (with Holmberg, L. P. and
Lundstrom, Petrus M.)
- Adnotationes botanicae (with Swartz, Olof,
Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, and Wikström, Joh. Em)
He was the father of Jacob
Georg Agardh, also a botanist.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Agardh, Karl Adolf". The American Cyclopædia. 1879.
- ^ Eriksson, Gunnar (1970). "Agardh, Carl Adolph". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 69–70. ISBN 0-684-10114-9.
- ^ "Karl Adolph Agardh". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
- ^ "Author Query for
'C.Agardh'". International Plant Names Index.
External links
- Short biography in French
- biomus.lu.se Lund University, Botanical Museum
- biomus.lu.se Lund Museum - Collections: algae
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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