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Olof Celsius the Younger (15 December 1716 – 15 February 1794) was a Swedish civil servant, church official, politician and historian. He was professor of history at Uppsala University from 1747, bishop of the Diocese of Lund from 1777, and member of the Swedish Academy from 1786.
Olof Celsius (the elder) (19 July 1670 – 24 June 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman. He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. [1] . Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicon, in 1745–47.
Notable Celsius family members. Magnus Celsius (1621–1679) Nils Celsius (1658–1724) Anders Celsius (1701–1744) Johan Celsius (1660–1710) Olof Celsius (the Elder) (1670–1756), Olof Celsius the Younger (1716–1794)
influence on Linnaeus. In Carolus Linnaeus: Early life and travels. …lectures; however, the university professor Olof Celsius provided Linnaeus access to his library. From 1730 to 1732 he was able to subsidize himself by teaching botany in the university garden of Uppsala.
It was here that he came to the attention of Olof Celsius (1670–1756) a theologian (professor of religious study) and naturalist (studying natural history). Celsius, who was uncle to Anders Celsius (the inventor of the Celsius thermometer), found Linnaeus studying in the university botanic garden—and was very surprised to find that the ...
Doctor Olof Celsius (1670-1756) created one of the oldest herbarium collections at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, his Flora Upplandica from 1730. Dr. Olof Celsius was the uncle of Professor Anders Celsius (1701~1744), the man who developed the modern system of temperature measurement.
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He showed the thesis to the foremost naturalist on campus, Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660-1740), who in truth was no longer young and did no teaching. But he could recognize talent and, far from resenting it, used his influence to obtain the position ofbotanic demonstrator at Uppsala for Linnaeus.
