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Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Feb 22, 2021 · Today is the anniversary of the death of the handsome and tall Swedish botanist - and a favorite student of Carl Linnaeus known as “the Vulture” - Pehr Loefling. Pehr met Carl at the University of Uppsala, where Carl was his professor.
Löfling worked at times as tutor for Carl Linnaeus’ son Carl, for food and lodging. The young student also helped out in Uppsala Botanical Garden together with completion of fair copies and registers for Linnaeus’ publications including the dictated text for Philosophia botanica (1751).
- 20 January 1729.
- Tolvfors, Valbo, Gästrikland, Sweden.
- 22 February 1756.
- San Antonio de Caroni, Guayana, Venezuela.
Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Pehr Löfling: Born in 1729 on Tolvfors bruk in Valbo parish in Gästrikland, Sweden. Student in Uppsala in 1743. Bachelor's degree and candidate of medicine in 1750. Professor in Madrid, Spain in 1751.
Jul 23, 2019 · In January 1729, the wife of a bookkeeper at the Tolvfors ironworks in northern Sweden gave birth to a son. Barbro Strandman came from a family of clergymen, so it is not surprising that she and her husband Erik Löfling planned for their boy, Pehr, to train for the priesthood when he came of age.
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Biography. Swedish botanist and favoured student of Carl Linnaeus, Pehr Loefling studied the flora of Spain, particularly the region surrounding Madrid, and travelled to northern South America.
