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Carl Peter Thunberg. Thunb. Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Italy and Asia ...
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Italy and Asia, collecting and describing people ...
THUNBERG, CARL PETER. ( b. Jönköping, Sweden. 11 November 1743; d. Tunaberg, near Uppsala, Sweden, 8 August 1828), botany. After studying at Jönköping, Thunberg entered Uppsala University in 1761, where he soon came under the influence of Linnaeus. His dissertation for the medical degree, De ishiade (1770), was not botanical and Linnaeus ...
Aug 8, 2023 · Carl Peter Thunberg, a Swedish naturalist and traveler, died Aug. 8, 1828, at the age of 84. He was born in Jönköping in the south of Sweden in 1743, and when he came of university age, he headed to Uppsala, where he became a student of the great Carl von Linné, better known as Linnaeus.
The Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg, born in 1743 and one of Carl Linneaus' pupils in Uppsala, was the first scientist to collect and describe plants in Japan using the Linnaean approach. His book, Flora Japonica (1784), was the first flora of Japanese plants.
Carl Peter Thunberg’s microscope, purchased by Adam Afzelius in London for £21, 11 May 1790. Uppsala University, Institution for Systematic Botany. Extensive collections of letters; Uppsala University Library, Thunberg’s letter collection and The Royal Academy of Sciences, manuscripts and letter collections in Stockholm.
On his return journey he collected further material in Java, Sri Lanka and Sierra Leone (1772-1778). Thunberg was appointed botanical demonstrator at Uppsala and later succeeded the younger Linnaeus as Professor of Botany (1784-1828). Specimens from Japan and South Africa were donated with the Banks herbarium in 1827, although the majority of ...
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