Carl Adolph Agardh

Carl Adolph Agardh (23 January 1785 in Båstad, Sweden – 28 January 1859 in Karlstad) was a Swedish botanist specializing in algae, who was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad.
Biography
In 1807 he was appointed teacher of mathematics at Lund University, in 1812 appointed professor of botany and natural sciences,[1] and was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1817, and of the Swedish Academy in 1831.
He was ordained a clergyman in 1816, received two parishes as prebend, and was a representative in the clerical chamber of the Swedish Parliament on several occasions from 1817. He was rector magnificus of Lund University 1819-1820 and was appointed bishop of Karlstad in 1835, where he remained until his death.[2] He was the father of Jacob Georg Agardh, also a botanist.[1]
Publications
He devoted considerable attention to political economy and as "a leading liberal", he "succeeded in improving and raising the standards of education in Sweden".[3] He also wrote on theological and other subjects, but his reputation chiefly rests on his botanical works, especially Systema algarum, Species algarum rite cognitae and Classes plantarum[4] on biological classification, and Icones Algarum (1824, 1820–28, and 1828–35). The greatest part of his Manual of Botany (2 vols., Malmoe, 1829–32) has been translated into German.[1]
List of selected publications
- Agardh, Carl Adolph (1825). Classes Plantarum. Lund: Literis Berlingianis. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
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- Dispositio algarum Sueciae /cuctore Carolo Adolfo Agardh
- Caroli A. Agardh Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae : adjecta dispositione universali algarum
- Aphorismi botanici.
- Adnotationes botanicae (with Swartz, Olof, Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, and Wikström, Joh. Em)
References
- ^ a b c Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). The American Cyclopædia. .
- ^ Eriksson 1970.
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Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Karl Adolph Agardh". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Agardh 1825.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. C. Agardh.
Bibliography
- 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.
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External links
- Short biography in French
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070406080639/http://www.biomus.lu.se/indexBe.html Lund University, Botanical Museum
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060621021532/http://www.biomus.lu.se/indexBsamae.html Lund Museum - Collections: algae