Carl Skottsberg Explained

Carl Skottsberg
Birth Name:Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg
Birth Date:1 December 1880
Birth Place:Karlshamn
Death Place:Gothenburg
Alma Mater:Uppsala University

Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg (1 December 1880  - 14 June 1963) was a Swedish botanist and explorer of Antarctica.[1] [2]

Life

Skottsberg was born in Karlshamn on 1 December 1880 the son of Carl Adolf Skottsberg a schoolmaster and his wife, Maria Louisa Pfeiffer.[3]

He was educated locally then studied Sciences at Uppsala University from 1898, specialising in Botany, and receiving his doctorate (PhD) there in 1907.[4]

From 1901 to 1903 Skottsberg served as official botanist to the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901 to 1903 on the ship Antarctic. On his return to Sweden, Skottsberg published (1905) the first comprehensive phytogeographic study of the flora of southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.[5] Later he led the Swedish Magellanic Expedition to Patagonia, 1907 to 1909. Carl Skottsberg is believed to have been the last to have seen the Santalum fernandezianum tree alive when he visited the Juan Fernández Islands in 1908.[6]

He was conservator at the Uppsala University Botanical Museum 1909 to 1914, but led the work on the new Botanical Garden in Gothenburg from 1915, and was appointed professor and director of the garden there, Göteborg Botanical Garden, in 1919.

In 1909, he married Inga Margareta Reuter.

Skottsberg was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and several other Swedish learned societies, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950.[1] That same year he presided the 7th International Botanical Congress. He was awarded the Linnean Society of London's Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1958 and the Linnean Medal in 1959.

He is buried at Östra kyrkogården in Gothenburg.

Publications

Honours

Several taxa have been named in his honour;[7]

Notes and References

  1. Salisbury . E. J. . 10.1098/rsbm.1964.0015 . Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg 1880-1963 . . 10 . 244–256. 1964 . free .
  2. [Nordisk familjebok]
  3. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 2018-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. 2016-03-04. dead.
  4. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 2018-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. 2016-03-04. dead.
  5. Book: Pisano Valdés, E.. Edmundo Pisano . 1977. Fitogeografía de Fuego-Patagonia chilena. I.-Comunidades vegetales entre las latitudes 52 y 56º S. . 122. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia. VIII . Pisano1977. es.
  6. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 2018-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. 2016-03-04. dead.
  7. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . 246307410 . January 27, 2022.
  8. http://www.slu.se/Global/externwebben/centrumbildningar-projekt/bryoconservation/Pdf%20ArtFaktablad/Faktablad/Skottsbergia_paradoxa.PDF Skottsbergia paradoxa.
  9. Web site: Species Fungorum - GSD Species . www.speciesfungorum.org . 27 October 2022.
  10. Web site: Skottsbergiella Epling Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 27 October 2022 . en.
  11. Web site: Skottsbergiliana H.St.John Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 27 October 2022 . en.
  12. Web site: Xerodraba Skottsb. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 27 October 2022 . en.
  13. Web site: Skottsbergianthus Boelcke Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 27 October 2022 . en.

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