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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 [ edit ]
Biography Olof (Peter Swartz), born 1760 in Norrköping, Sweden, died 1818 in Stockholm, Sweden, was a famous Swedish botanist and taxonomist, he studied at the University of Uppsala; he visited England between 1786 and 1787 to make some studies at the British Museum.
Apr 1, 2013 · 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. The Swedish botanist Olof Peter Swartz (1760–1818), a student of Carl Peter Thunberg and Carl Linnaeus the Younger at Uppsala ...
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Olof Swartz was a Swedish botanist who studied the flora of the West Indies and the cryptogams. He published several works on the West Indies, orchids, mosses, and ferns, and was the permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was also interested in natural history and gardening.
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 ...
- David J. Galloway
- 2013
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 ...
Olof Swartz's contributions to lichenology, 1781–1811. 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.
