Carl Adolph Agardh

Carl Adolph Agardh
Portrait of Carl Adolph Agardh
From the Swedish journal Svenska Familj-Journalen
Born(1785-01-23)23 January 1785
Båstad, Sweden
Died28 January 1859(1859-01-28) (aged 74)
Karlstad, Sweden
Resting placeLund, Sweden
Alma materLund University
Known forSystema algarum
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Author abbrev. (botany)C.Agardh
Signature
Signature of Carl Adolph Agardh

Carl Adolph Agardh was a Swedish botanist and bishop of Karlstad. He was known for his extensive work on algae.

Biography

Agardh was born on 23 January 1785 in Båstad, a town in Scania (Swedish: Skåne), Sweden. He began to study at Lund University in 1799.[1]

In 1807, Agardh became a teacher of mathematics at Lund. In 1812, he was appointed professor of botany and rural economy.[2] He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1817, and of the Swedish Academy in 1831.

Agardh became a Lutheran clergyman in 1816. He was a member of the Swedish Parliament on several occasions from 1817. He was rector magnificus of Lund University from 1819 to 1820. In 1835 he became the bishop of Karlstad, where he remained until his death. He died on 28 January 1859 in Karlstad.[3]

Publications

Agardh devoted considerable attention to political economy. As "a leading liberal", he "succeeded in improving and raising the standards of education in Sweden".[4] He wrote on theological and other subjects, but he is best known for his botanical works, especially Systema algarum, Species algarum rite cognitae, and Icones Algarum (1824, 1820–28, and 1828–35). He translated into German most of his Manual of Botany (2 vols., Malmoe, 1829–32)[2]

This author is usually abbreviated C.Agardh when citing a botanical name.[5]

Some of his works

Family

Agardh was the father of Jacob Georg Agardh, also a botanist.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Agardh". Imago Mundi - Encyclopédie gratuite en ligne (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Agardh, Karl Adolf". The new international encyclopaedia (archive). 2005. p. 191. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Eriksson, Gunnar (1970). "Agardh, Carl Adolph". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 69–70. ISBN 0-684-10114-9.
  4. ↑ Gilman, Daniel Coit; Peck, Harry Thurston; Colby, Frank Moore (1905). The new international encyclopaedia. University of California Libraries. New York : Dodd, Mead.
  5. ↑ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.

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