Eric Hultén

Oskar Gunnar Eric Hultén ( born March 18, 1894 in Halla, historical province of Södermanland, † 1 February 1981) was a Swedish botanist and Phytogeograph.

Life and work

Hultén put his licentiate in 1931 from the University of Stockholm and worked as a curator at the Botanical Museum in Lund. He disputed 1937 at Lund University and received her doctorate. From 1945 until his retirement in 1961, Hultén professor and head of the botanical department of the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm.

Hultén appeared as the author of several botanical monographs on the Nordic countries and from his travels in Siberia and the Aleutian Islands. In his work, he was a tireless traveler who studied the plants of the northern hemisphere and cataloged and collected samples of plants. From 1932 onwards, he explored in this sense, Alaska and the Aleutian Islands in order to give their plants accepted labels. He was the first researcher to the similarities of plants in Alaska, with those which he had collected on previous trips to Siberia since 1937 in a context of the connection by a land bridge that Beringia, between Alaska and Siberia during the Ice Age sat.

From the marriage with Elsie Pontus Hultén Hultén emerged.

His author abbreviation for botanical taxa is Hultén.

Works

  • Flora of Kamchatka and the Adjacent Islands. I. Pteridophyta, gymnosperms and monocots. II Dicotyledoneae, Salicaceae, Cruciferae. Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1928.
  • Vegetation pictures: South Kamchatka. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1932.
  • History of Arctic and Boreal Biota. 1937
  • Vår svenska flora i färg: Jämte ett urval växter från de gran nordiska country nutrition. Svensk literature, Stockholm 1958.
  • Amphi- atlantic plants and Their phytogeographical connections. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar, 7 ( 1). 1958
  • Flora of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula westernmost with notes on the flora odf Commander Islands. J. Cramer, Weinheim 1960.
  • Comments on the flora of Alaska and the Yukon. Almquist & Wiksell, Estocolmo 1967.
  • History & Evolution of the Artic Flora in the footsteps
  • Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories. A manual of the vascular plants. Stanford 1968.
  • The Circumpolar plants: Dicotyledons. Almquist & Wiksell. Stockholm 1970.
  • The Circumpolar plants: Vascular Cryptogams, conifers, Monocotyledons. Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1970.
  • Atlas of the distribution of Vascular Plants in northwest Europe. 1971
  • The Plant cover of Southern Kamchatka. Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1972.
  • Men roligt har det varit. Memoirs. 1973
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