Olof Rudbeck the Younger

Olof Rudbeck the Younger ( born March 15, 1660 in Uppsala, † March 23, 1740 ) was a Swedish anatomist and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " OORudbeck ".

Life and work

The son of Olof Rudbeck the Elder was first taught by his father and then began to study medicine at the University of Uppsala. There he gave his 1686 disputation De propagatione plantarum out. In the same year Rudbeck medical adjunct at the University of Uppsala. In 1687, he began an extensive European tour, among other things, it led to England, the Netherlands and Germany. He received his doctorate in Utrecht in 1691 and returned back to Sweden, where he was a year later succeeded his father in the chair of anatomy and botany at Uppsala took.

Olof Rudbeck the Younger in 1695 undertook a trip to Lapland. Of the projected twelve volumes in which Rudbeck wanted to represent the researches in Lapland, in 1701 the first volume of Nova Samoland, immersive Lapponia illustrata had appeared. The designs for the remaining volumes were destroyed by a fire in Uppsala from 1702.

He was knighted in 1719, 1739 archiater and died March 23, 1740.

He was a teacher of Carl Linnaeus.

Works (selection)

• Lapponia illustrata (Uppsala 1701)
• Ichthyologia biblica (Uppsala 1705)