Peter Jonas Bergius

Peter Jonas Bergius (1730 in Kronoberg, Sweden – 1790) was a Swedish medical doctor and botanist.[1]

Peter Jonas Bergius, 1847

In 1758 Bergius was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[1] In 1768 he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770 [3] and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1785.[4]

Works
Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei, 1767
  • Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei (in Latin). Stockholm. Lars Salvius. 1767.

References
  1. "Peter Jonas Bergius". Bergius Botanical Garden. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  2. Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, 3:555–558.
  3. "Fellow Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  4. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  5. IPNI.  P.J.Bergius.
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