Carl Peter Thunberg
1743–1828
Swedish botanist. A protégé of Carolus Linnaeus. Accompanied a Dutch merchant vessel to Japan, spending time in Cape Colony, India, and Ceylon en route, 1772–9. Botanical demonstrator, Uppsala University, 1779; professor of botany, 1784.
Sources
DSB
SBL
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
SBL: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Edited by Bertil Boëthius et al. 33 vols. and 4 fascicles of vol. 34 (A–Swenson) to date. Stockholm: Albert Bonnier and P. A. Norstedt. 1918–.
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