Carl Axel Magnus Lindman

Carl Axel Magnus Lindman ( born April 6, 1856 in Halmstad ( Sweden), † June 21, 1928 ) was a Swedish botanist. His main work was the richly illustrated Flora " images for North Flora" ( 1901-1905 ). His botanical author abbreviation is " Lindm. "

Biography

Carl Lindman was the first child of Carl Christian Lindman and Sophie Fredrique Löhr. His father died before the birth of his sister. His mother moved with the two children in 1864 to Vaxjo, where Carl Lindman attended primary school. He had early musical and artistic talents. At the request of his mother he saw on an artistic career and studied from 1874 at the University of Uppsala botany and zoology. In 1984 he became professor of botany. Two years later he earned his doctorate in philosophy. In 1887 Carl Lindman worked as amanuensis by Anders Fredrik Regnell at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. In the summer he worked in the Bergius Botanic Garden and in winter as a lecturer in natural history and physics at Högre Latinläroverket, a high school in Stockholm. Together with Gustaf Malme 1892 he was a research trip to Brazil and Paraguay encouraged. After the trip, he joined his job as a lecturer. From 1896 to 1900 he taught the sons of the Swedish crown prince ( and later Gustav V of Sweden). During this time he worked on his book " Images for North Flora". 1905 Lindman was Professor of Botany at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. He took the chair right up to his retirement in 1923. Lindman 1913 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1914 a member of the Kungliga Lantbruksakademien (Royal Agricultural College).

Drawings Lindman from " ur pictures North Flora"

Apple - rose (Rosa villosa )

Mean quaking grass ( Briza media )

Vaginal cotton grass ( Eriophorum vaginatum )