ACHARIUS, ERIK (1757-1819)

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ACHARIUS, ERIK (1757-1819) , Swedish botanist, was born on the loth of October 1757, and in 1773 entered

Upsala

UPSALA, or UPPSALA

University, where he was a

pupil

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

Linnaeus

LINNAEUS

. He graduated M.D. at

Lund

LUND
LUND, TROELS FREDERIK (1840- )

in 1782, and in 18o1 was appointed

professor

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

of botany at Wadstena

Academy

ACADEMY,
GREEK
- GREEK
- GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND
ACADEMY, ROYAL

. He devoted himself to the study of

lichens

LICHENS

, and all his publications were connected with that class of

plants

PLANTS

, his Lichenographia Universalis (

Gottingen

GOTTINGEN

, 1804) being the most important. He died at Wadstena on the 13th of August 1819.

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