Jacob Georg Agardh

Jacob Georg Agardh (8 December 1813 in Lund, Sweden – 17 January 1901[1] in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist.[2]

Jacob Georg Agardh
Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901) painted by Oscar Björck in 1893
Born8 December 1813
Lund, Sweden
Died17 January 1901 (1901-01-18) (aged 87)
Lund, Sweden
CitizenshipSweden
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

He was the son of Carl Adolph Agardh, and from 1854 until 1879 was professor of botany at Lund University.[3][4] Agardh designed the current 1862 blueprints for the botanical garden Botaniska trädgården in Lund.[5]

In 1849, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Agardh was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1878.[6] It is said that the naturalist Mary Philadelphia Merrifield learnt Swedish in order that she could correspond with him.[7]

Works

His principal work, Species, Genera et Ordines Algarum (4 vols., Lund, 1848–63), was a standard authority.[3]

References
  1. "Jacob G Agardh – Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon". sok.riksarkivet.se. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  2. Hunt Botanical Library, Carnegie-Mellon University (1972). Biographical Dictionary of Botanists Represented in the Hunt Institute Portrait Collection. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co. p. 4. ISBN 0-8161-1023-9.
  3. Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Agardh, Karl Adolf" . The American Cyclopædia.
  4.  Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Jacob Georg Agardh". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  5. Botaniska trädgården. "A Brief History of the Lund University Botanical Garden". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  6. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  7. Creese, Mary R. S. (1 January 2000). Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800–1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research. Scarecrow Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-585-27684-7.
  8. IPNI.  J. Agardh.

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