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Olof Peter Swartz (21 September 1760 – 19 September 1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes . Biography. Olof Swartz attended the University of Uppsala where he studied under Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741–1783) and received his doctorate in 1781.
The Swedish botanist Olof Peter Swartz (1760–1818), a student of Carl Peter Thunberg and Carl Linnaeus the Younger at Uppsala University, developed an interest in mosses and lichens, which he made the subject of his medical dissertation. He visited Jamaica (1783–1786) where he collected all plant groups and a substantial number of lichens.
1760-1818. Biography. Olof (Peter) Swartz, born 1760 in Norrköping, Sweden, died 1818 in Stockholm, Sweden, botanist and taxonomist. Studied under Linnaeus at the University of Uppsala; visited England in 1786 - 1787 to study Natural History collections at the British Museum. 3 related objects.
947496 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 26 — Swartz, Olof SWARTZ, OLOF (1760–1818), Swedish botanist, was born in 1760. He commenced his botanical studies in Upsala, under Linnaeus and Thunberg, and began early to make excursions.
Olof Swartz - Wikisource, the free online library. Author:Olof Swartz. ←. Author Index: Sw. Olof Swartz. (1760–1817) sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, taxonomy, Wikidata item. Swedish botanist and taxonomist; name variations: given name Olavo, Peter; family name Svartz, Swarts, Swarz. Olof Swartz. Works [ edit]
Olof P. Swartz Swartz was a Swedish naturalist, who studied mostly botany, but he described a small number of scarabs in Schönherr’s Synonymia Insectorum (1817). He traveled widely in Sweden and also conducted a trip to North and South America (1783-85), after which he stayed for some time at the British Museum in London.
Although he is largely known for his pioneering work on flowering plants (especially orchids) and ferns, Swartz made important contributions to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century lichenology, publishing five major accounts describing 37 new species.
