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Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Biography [ edit ] Löfling was born in Tolvfors Bruk , Gävle, Sweden.
- Botany
- 22 February 1756 (aged 27), Guayana Region, Venezuela
Dec 29, 2021 · One of the members of this expedition was young Swedish naturalist Pehr Löfling (January 31, 1729 – February 22, 1756). Löfling was one of the so-called apostles of Carl Linnaeu s. At the request of the Spanish court, he first traveled to Spain in 1751 to study its natural habitats and contribute to the dissemination of the Linnaean method ...
Jul 23, 2019 · Pehr Löfling (1729–56) was a Swedish botanist who studied with Carl Linnaeus in Uppsala and worked in Spain and South America. In the course of his short life he had to navigate a remarkable sequence of new social, cultural and intellectual contexts that confronted him with the challenges of diversity.
- Kenneth Nyberg
- 2018
[For Cristóbal Velez, ca. 1710-1753, a friend of the botanist Pehr Loefling] Ronald L. Hartman, Richard K. Rabeler Herbs, annual. Taproots slender. Stems simple or branched, terete. Leaves connate proximally by line of tissue or sheath, sessile; blade 3-veined, linear to subulate, apex acute.
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Bachelor of Philosophy and he defended a thesis for Linnaeus, 18 November 1749. Unusually, the thesis “ de Gemmae arborum ” was authored mainly by the respondent, i.e. Löfling, not by Linnaeus. Doctor of Medicine 1751. Professional Life. Löfling worked at times as tutor for Carl Linnaeus’ son Carl, for food and lodging.
- 20 January 1729.
- Tolvfors, Valbo, Gästrikland, Sweden.
- 22 February 1756.
- San Antonio de Caroni, Guayana, Venezuela.
Seeds 6–8, black, ovate-oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, ... For Cristóbal Velez, ca. 1710–1753, a friend of the botanist Pehr Loefling ...
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. Early on, Carl dubbed Pehr his "most beloved pupil," he even gave Pehr a nickname: the Vulture.
