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Swedish botanist and Antarctic explorer (1880–1963)
Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg (1 December 1880 – 14 June 1963) was a Swedish
botanist and explorer of
Antarctica .
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Life
Skottsberg was born in
Karlshamn on 1 December 1880 the son of Carl Adolf Skottsberg a schoolmaster and his wife, Maria Louisa Pfeiffer.
[4]
He was educated locally then studied Sciences at
Uppsala University from 1898, specialising in Botany, and receiving his doctorate (PhD) there in 1907.
[5]
From 1901 to 1903 Skottsberg served as official botanist to the
Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901 to 1903 on the ship
Antarctic . On his return to Sweden, Skottsberg published (1905) the first comprehensive
phytogeographic study of the flora of southern Patagonia and
Tierra del Fuego .
[6] Later he led the
Swedish Magellanic Expedition to
Patagonia , 1907 to 1909. Carl Skottsberg is believed to have been the last to have seen the
Santalum fernandezianum tree alive when he visited the
Juan Fernández Islands in 1908.
[7]
He was conservator at the Uppsala University Botanical Museum 1909 to 1914, but led the work on the new Botanical Garden in
Gothenburg from 1915, and was appointed professor and director of the garden there,
Göteborg Botanical Garden , in 1919.
In 1909, he married Inga Margareta Reuter.
Skottsberg was a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and several other Swedish learned societies, and was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society in 1950.
[1] That same year he presided the 7th International Botanical Congress. He was awarded the
Linnean Society of London 's
Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1958 and the
Linnean Medal in 1959.
He is buried at
Östra kyrkogården in
Gothenburg .
Publications
Honours
Several taxa have been named in his honour;
[8]
Botanical Reference
References
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c Salisbury, E. J. (1964).
"Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg 1880-1963" .
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 10 : 244–256.
doi :
10.1098/rsbm.1964.0015 .
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International Plant Names Index .
Skottsb .
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Nordisk familjebok , vol. 25 (1917), col.
1180 , and vol. 38 (Suppl., 1926), col.
368
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.
ISBN
0-902-198-84-X . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-07-06 .
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.
ISBN
0-902-198-84-X . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-07-06 .
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Pisano Valdés, E. (1977). "Fitogeografía de Fuego-Patagonia chilena. I.-Comunidades vegetales entre las latitudes 52 y 56º S".
Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia (in Spanish). Vol. VIII.
Punta Arenas . p. 122. {{
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link )
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.
ISBN
0-902-198-84-X . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-07-06 .
^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022).
Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names ] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin.
doi :
10.3372/epolist2022 .
ISBN
978-3-946292-41-8 .
S2CID
246307410 . Retrieved January 27, 2022 .
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Skottsbergia paradoxa .
Archived 2015-09-24 at the
Wayback Machine Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
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"Species Fungorum - GSD Species" . www.speciesfungorum.org . Retrieved 27 October 2022 .
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"Skottsbergiella Epling | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" . Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 27 October 2022 .
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"Skottsbergiliana H.St.John | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" . Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 27 October 2022 .
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"Xerodraba Skottsb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" . Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 27 October 2022 .
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"Skottsbergianthus Boelcke | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" . Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 27 October 2022 .
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International Plant Names Index .
Skottsb .
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