Kilian Stobæus

Kilian Stobaeus ( pronunciation: [ ˌ ɕi ː ː lian stobe ɵs ], born February 6, 1690 in Vinslöv, community Hässleholm, † February 17, 1742 ) was a Swedish physician and naturalist.

Life and work

Kilian Stobaeus studied from 1709 at Lund University and received his doctorate there in 1721 as a doctor of medicine. In 1728 he was in Lund, Professor of Philosophy, Medicine and Natural History, and from 1732 also for history.

Kilian Stobaeus was one of the teachers of Carl Linnaeus. Stobaeus collected all sorts of natural history curiosities and founded in 1735, the museum Stobæanum, which it donated to the University of Lund.

Works

• Dissertatio physiologica de naturali fame. Lund 1717 - dissertation Johan Jacob Döbelius
• Scheme genealogicum Serenissimi et potentissimi dn Friderici svethorum, gothorum, vandalorumque registered & c. nec non Hassiae landgravii & c. stemma augustissimum from Ynglingis, Skioldungis, Carolingis, Folkungis, antiquissimis et illustrissimis: Totius septentrionis, Imo orbis familiis repetens et rite deducens. 1730
• Opuscula in quibus petrefactorum, numismatum, et Antiquitatum historia illustratur, in unum volume collecta: cum multis figuris. Danzig 1752-1753