Carl Peter Thunberg

Thunberg was born at Jönköping, and became a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University. There he studied natural philosophy and medicine, and took his degree in 1767. In 1770, he left Sweden for Paris, to continue his studies in medicine and natural history. In 1771, during a stay in Amsterdam and Leiden, he studied their botanical gardens and musea. He was invited to visit the Dutch colonies and Japan to collect specimens for Dutch botanical gardens. He left in December 1771, as the ship's surgeon in the Dutch East India Comp ...

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Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné ▶ (help·info), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), the name with which his publications were signed, was a Swedish botanist and physician who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. He is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology (see History of ecology). Carolus Linnaeus - ...

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Carl Linnaeus was born at a farm called Råshult in Älmhult Municipality, the province of Småland in southern Sweden. Like his father and maternal grandfather, Linnaeus was groomed as a youth to be a churchman, but he showed little enthusiasm for it. His interest in botany impressed a physician from his town and he was sent to study at Lund University, transferring to Uppsala University after one year. During this time Linnaeus became convinced that in the stamens and pistils of flowers lay the basis for the classification of plants, and he wrote a short work on the subject that ...

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August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. August 8 - Events. 1509 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned in the town of Chittoor in the present-day state of Andhra Pradesh, India. His accession marks the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire after a period of internal strife. 1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage. 1588 - Battle of Gravelines ...

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Although taxonomists, in almost any biological field, are familiar with the work of Carolus Linnaeus, his contribution to taxonomy goes far beyond contributing so-called scientific names to many of the world's plants and animals. Linnaeus developed, during the great 18th century expansion of natural history knowledge, what became known as the Linnaean taxonomy; the system of scientific clas ...

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List of biologists - Ba-Bi. Churchill Babington (1831-1881), British archaeologist and conchologist John Bachman (1790-1874), American naturalist Curt Backeberg (1894-1966), German botanist (abbr. in botany: Backeb.) Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876), embryology Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954),American botanist (abbr. in botany : L.H.Bailey) Spencer Fullerton Baird, (1823-1887), birds and mammals John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884), Scottish botanist (abb ...

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Philipp Franz von Siebold - Early life. Born in Würzburg, Bavaria into a family of doctors and professors of medicine, von Siebold initially studied medicine at the university of his hometown from November 1815. One of his professors was Franz Xaver Heller (1775-1840), author of the Flora Wirceburgensis (flora of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg, 1810-1811). Ignaz Döllinger (1770-1841), his professor of anatomy and physiology, however, most influenced him. Döllinger was one of the first professors to unders ...

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List of Uppsala University people - Mathematics Physics and Astronomy. Christopher Polhem (1661-1751), mechanical engineer and inventor Samuel Klingenstierna (1698-1765), mathematician and physicist Anders Celsius (1701-1744), physicist and astronomer, inventor of the centigrade scale, the predecessor of the Celsius scale Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (1717-1783), astronomer, first head of the Stockholm Observatory Johan Carl Wilcke (1732–1796), physicist See also:

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The island was constructed in 1634, on orders of shogun Iemitsu, and originally accommodated Portuguese merchants. The Shimabara uprising of 1637, in which Christian Japanese took an active part, was crushed with the help of the Dutch. After the Portuguese and other Catholic nations were expelled from Japan in 1638, the shogunate ordered the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C.) transfer its mercantile operations from the port of Hirado (established on 20 Sep 1609) to Deshima. From now on, only the Chinese and the Dutch could trade with Japan. I ...

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Jönköping is a old trading center (Köping), since it was located on a crossroad for the roads following along the rivers Nissan and Lagan, and the road between the provinces Ostrogothia and Westrogothia. This was rather natural due to the geographical position of the city at the southern end of lake Vättern, which divided the two counties. On May 18, 1284, Jönköping received rights as a City in Sweden as one of the first communities in the country, by King Magnus Ladulås, who at that time largely ruled the nation fr ...

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List of biologists - Ma-Mi. John Macadam (1827-1865), Scottish-born Australian botanist William MacGillivray (1796-1852), Scottish naturalist Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian anatomist and biologist Lynn Margulis (born 1938), American microbiologist Alberto della Marmora (1789-1863), Italian naturalist Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899), paleontology Barry Marshall (born 1951), Australian physician and microbiologist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize ...

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List of biologists - Sa-So. Joseph Sabine (1770-1837), English naturalist Julius von Sachs (1832-1897), German botanist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), French naturalist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861), French zoologist Edward James Salisbury (1886-1978), British botanist Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761-1829), British botanist Robert Sapolsky (born 1957), American neuroscientist Georg Sars (1837-1927), Norwegian marine bi ...

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For the next two hundred years, Dutch merchants were generally not allowed to cross from Deshima to Nagasaki, and Japanese were likewise banned from entering Deshima, except for prostitutes. Official exceptions were also made to this rule, especially following Tokugawa Yoshimune's doctrine of promoting European practical sciences. European scholars such as Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Philipp Franz von Siebold were allowed to enter the mainland with the shogunate's permission. Starting in the 1700s, Deshima became known throughout Japan as a center of medicine, military science, and astronomy, and many samurai travel ...

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List of Uppsala University people - Royalty. King Charles X of Sweden, matriculated 1638. King Charles XV of Sweden, student in Uppsala 1843 and 1845 (spring semester 1844 in Christiania) Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uplandia (1827-1852), song composer, matriculated 1844 and studied several semesters in Uppsala King Oscar II of Sweden Prince Carl, Duke of Westrogothia (1861-), student 1881-1882 Prince Eugén, Duke of Nericia, artist and art collector King Gust ...

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In February 1778, Thunberg left Ceylon for Amsterdam, passing by at the Cape and staying there for two weeks. He finally arrived at Amsterdam in October 1778. He returned to Sweden in 1779. But first he made a short trip to London and made the acquaintance of Sir Joseph Banks. He saw there the Japanese collection from 1680’s of the German naturalist Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), who had preceded him at Dejima. He also met Forster, who introduced him to his co ...

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In August 1775 he arrived at the Dutch factory of the V.O.C. (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) at Dejima, a small artificial island (120 m by 75 m) in the Bay of Nagasaki, connected to the city by a landfill. He was appointed head surgeon (1775-1776) of this trading-post. But, like the Dutch, he was hardly allowed to leave the island. Nevertheless, he was one of the few to be allowed to conduct some botanical research ashore. In order to obtain more specimens, he traded his knowledge of European medicine with Japanese interpreters f ...

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