Peter Jonas Bergius
Peter Jonas Bergius(13 July 1730 – 10 July 1790) was aSwedishmedical doctorandbotanist.[1]
In 1758 Bergius was elected a member of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[1]In 1768 he was elected to membership of theAmerican Philosophical Society.[2]He was elected aFellow of the Royal Societyin 1770[3]and a Foreign Honorary Member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 1785.[4]
Works
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- Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei(in Latin). Stockholm. 1767.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Peter Jonas Bergius".Bergius Botanical Garden.Retrieved22 May2015.
- ^Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, 3:555–558.
- ^"Fellow Details".Royal Society.Retrieved17 January2017.
- ^"Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B"(PDF).American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Retrieved8 September2016.
- ^International Plant Names Index.P.J.Bergius.
- ^Gunn, Mary (1981).Botanical exploration of southern Africa: an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora: biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.L. E. W. Codd. Cape Town: Published for the Botanical Research Institute by A.A. Balkema. p. 56.ISBN0-86961-129-1.OCLC8591273.
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Categories:
- 1730 births
- 1790 deaths
- People from Ljungby Municipality
- 18th-century Swedish botanists
- 18th-century Swedish physicians
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities