Carl Skottsberg

Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg ( born December 1, 1880 in Karlshamn, † June 14, 1963 in Gothenburg ) was a Swedish botanist and explorer of Antarctica. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Skottsb. ".

Skottsberg studied 1898-1907 at Uppsala University, where he taught also. From 1901 to 1903 he took part in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld. From 1907 to 1909 he headed the Swedish expedition to Patagonia.

He was from 1909 to 1914 curator of the Botanical Museum of the University of Uppsala. From 1919 he was director of the botanical garden.

Skottsberg was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a foreign member in 1950 ( "Fellow" ) of the Royal Society. In 1959 he was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London.

Works

• O. Nordenskjold, JG Anderson, CA Larsen and C. Skottsberg: "Antarctic ": two years in snow and ice at the South Pole. Berlin 1904
• Vegetation images from Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Jena: Fischer, 1907
• Studies on the plant life of the Falkland Islands. Stockholm, inter alia,: Lithogr. Institute of General Staff, 1909 ( Scientific results of the Swedish South Polar Expedition; 4:10)
• Botanical results of the Swedish expedition to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, 1907-1909. Uppsala; Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1910
• Vegetation pictures of the Juan Fernandez Islands. Jena: Fischer, 1911
• Morphological and embryological studies on the Myzodendraceen. Uppsala [ inter alia ]: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1913
• Myzodendraceae. Leipzig [ inter alia ]: Engelmann, 1914
• The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Iceland. 1921
• Communities of marine algae in subantarctic and antarctic waters. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1941
• Plant succession on recent lava flows in the Iceland of Hawaii. Gothenburg 1941