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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.

  2. SWARTZ, OLOF. ( b. Norrköping, Sweden, 21 September 1760; d. Stockholm, Sweden, 19 September 1818) botany. Swartz began his studies in the field of medicine at Uppsala University in 1778, the year of Linnaeus’ death. He had been interested in botany at an early age, and had already traveled to different parts of Sweden and Finland in order ...

  3. 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. Apart from the lichens that Swartz described ...

  4. 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.

  5. 1982] Howard & Bremer — Olof Swartz 147 The "Kings-Road" anchorage Swartz mentioned is now called President Road or Broad Sound and is the entrance to the inner harbor of Boston between Deer Island and Long Island. Landing on Deer Island one can walk to Winthrop, Revere and the North Shore. Most of the plants Swartz named can be found in the ...

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    Olof P. Swartz 1760-1818 : 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 ...

  7. Olof Swartz (1760-1818) was the first Professor Bergianus and also Permanent Secretary of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, from 1811 until his death in 1818. Swartz was a leading botanist in ...

  8. 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.

  9. Olof Swartz. Olof Peter Swartz (21 September 1760 – 19 September 1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olof Swartz has received more than 34,227 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Olof Swartz is the 432nd most popular biologist (down from 389th in 2019 ...

  10. OLOF SWARTZ (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. He made a voyage to America in 1783, visited England in 1788, returned to Sweden in 1789, and was made professor of natural history in Stockholm.

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