Carl Adolph Agardh

Carl Adolph Agardh ( born January 23, 1785 Båstad, † 28 January 1859 in Karlstad ) was a Swedish botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " C.Agardh ".

Life

Carl Adolph Agardh was born in 1785 as the son of merchant Jacob Georg Agardh.

Agardh studied from 1799 Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Lund University and received his doctorate there in 1805 as a doctor of philosophy. He remained at the university, was from 1807 lecturer in mathematics, botany, and economics and in 1812 finally Professor of Botany and economy. In the following years he devoted himself at Stockholm University botanical research and focused, inspired by his colleagues Olof Peter Swartz, and in particular the cryptogams customer.

In 1816, he asked for the holy orders and became pastor at St. Peter monastery in Lund without giving up his professorship. In 1819 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. In 1834 he was appointed bishop in Karlstad.

Through his writings Agardh has given for the classification of algae in his time major impetus.

Next Agardh also wrote treatises on state economic issues, was a member of his congregation to the Reichstag and a member of the 1827 and 1828 appointed education committee. In this role, he had strongly influenced the then carried out reform of the Swedish school system.

To Agardhs famous descendants include his son Jacob Georg Agardh (1813-1901), also a botanist, and his grandson Gustaf Fröding, one of the most important Swedish poet of the 1890s.

Writings (selection )

  • Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae. Lund 1817.
  • Species algarum rite cognitae etc.. Das. and Greifswald 1823-1828, 2 vols
  • Icones algarum europaearum. Leipzig from 1828 to 1835.
  • Systema algarum. Lund 1824.
  • Essai de la réduire physlologie végétale à des principes fondamentaux. Lund 1828th
  • Essai sur le développement intérieur des plantes. das., 1829.
  • Lärobok i botany. Malmö 1830-1832, 2 vols; German, Part 1: Organography of plants. by L. v. Meyer, Copenhagen 1831; Part 2: General biology of plants. of Creplin, Greifswald 1832.
  • Försök till en statsökonomisk statistics öfver Sverige. with Ljungberg, Stockholm 1852-1863, 4 vols
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