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Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Italy and Asia, collecting and ...
The Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg, born in 1743 and one of Carl Linneaus' pupils in Uppsala, was the first scientist to collect and describe plants in Japan using the Linnaean approach. His book, Flora Japonica (1784), was the first flora of Japanese plants.
CARL PETER THUNBERG (1743-1828) ON HIS BICENTENARY By NILS SVEDELIUS IN 1943 the University of Uppsala celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of the birth (Nov. 11, 1743) of the Swedish botanist CARL PETER THUN-BERG. As he was the most prominent botanical explorer of his time and, also, the one who through his activity opened up two great ...
Thunberg entered upon the employment as “botanices demonstrator”, and was appointed Professor in botany 1781. 1784, Thunberg was appointed the botanical professor’s duty “the Chair of botany” after Linnaeus’ son Carl Linné the younger, an employment Thunberg kept for the rest of his life (1828).
- 11 November 1743.
- Jönköping, Småland, Sweden.
- 8 August 1828.
- Uppsala, Sweden.
Biography. Swedish botanist from Jönköping, a student of Linnaeus who graduated in medicine from Uppsala University (1770). He studied in Paris before accepting an invitation to join a plant-collecting expedition on a Dutch merchant ship travelling to Japan.
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus.
Carl Peter Thunberg in Japan. Employed as a surgeon by the Dutch East India Company, the Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg left Amsterdam in December 1771. Via South Africa and Java, Thunberg arrived in Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1775.
