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Carl Peter Thunberg (* 11. November 1743 in Jönköping; † 8. August 1828 auf Tunaberg bei Uppsala) war ein schwedischer Mediziner und Naturforscher. Er leistete bedeutende Beiträge zur botanischen und entomologischen Erforschung der südafrikanischen Kapregion sowie Japans. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „ Thunb. “.
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Italy and Asia, collecting and ...
The Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg, born in 1743 and one of Carl Linneaus' pupils in Uppsala, was the first scientist to collect and describe plants in Japan using the Linnaean approach. His book, Flora Japonica (1784), was the first flora of Japanese plants.
Portrait of Carl Peter Thunberg; German etching, published in ‘Journal für die Botanik’, Vol. 1. in Göttingen 1799. [Source; Jens Hansen/The Library, The IK Foundation & Company, United Kingdom]. Oil on canvas by Per Krafft the younger c. 1808. Thunberg depicted as a 65 year old man.
Biography. Swedish botanist from Jönköping, a student of Linnaeus who graduated in medicine from Uppsala University (1770). He studied in Paris before accepting an invitation to join a plant-collecting expedition on a Dutch merchant ship travelling to Japan.
CARL PETER THUNBERG (1743-1828) ON HIS BICENTENARY By NILS SVEDELIUS IN 1943 the University of Uppsala celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of the birth (Nov. 11, 1743) of the Swedish botanist CARL PETER THUN-BERG. As he was the most prominent botanical explorer of his time and, also, the one who through his activity opened up two great ...
11. Juli 2007 · In 1775, 83 years after Kaempfer left Japan, a Swedish doctor, Carl Peter Thunberg, arrived at the Dutch Trading House. Thunberg was Linnaeus's pupil and later became a full professor at...
