Johan Ångström Explained

Johan Ångström (24 September 1813, Lögdö, Medelpad – 19 January 1879, Örnsköldsvik) was a Swedish physician and bryologist.

He obtained his education in Uppsala, and later practiced medicine in the communities of Lycksele and Örnsköldsvik.^[1] With Fredrik Nylander (1820-1880), he conducted botanical investigations in Lapland, Finland and Karelia.^[2]

The moss genus Aongstroemia (Bruch & Schimp., 1846) in named in his honor.^[3] As a taxonomist, he was the binomial authority of several plants within the genus Botrychium.^[4]

Selected works

Dispositio muscorum in Scandinavia : hucusque cognitorum, 1842.
Symbolae ad Bryologiam Scandinavicam, 1844.
Primae lineae muscorum cognoscendorum, 1876.^[5]

Notes and References

http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000390956 JSTOR Global Plants
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/187051.html Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - A
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200104 eFlora
http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=%C3%85ngstr.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2010-48492 WorldCat Identities