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THUNBERG, KARL PETER (1743-1828)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 898 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO
THUNBERG, KARL PETER (1743-1828) , Swedish naturalist, was born at Jonkoping on the 11th of November 1743, and became a
pupil
  of Linnaeus at the university of
Upsala
 . After graduating in
medicine
  there in 1770 he obtained an
appointment
  as surgeon in the Dutch
East
  India Company, and sailed to the Cape of Good
Hope
  in 1772. He spent three years there, and then went to Japan, where he remained till 1778, engaged in making collections of
plants
 . On his return in 1779 he visited England, and made the acquaintance of Sir Joseph Banks. In 1781 he was appointed demonstrator of botany at
Upsala
 , and he succeeded the younger Linnaeus as professor of botany in 1784. He published his
Flora
  japonica in 1784, and in 1788 he began to publish his travels. He completed his Prodomus plantarum in 1800, his Icones plantarum japonicarum in 1805, and his
Flora
  capensis in 1813. He published numerous memoirs in the transactions of many Swedish and other scientific
societies
 , of sixty-six of which he was an honorary member. He died near Upsala on the 8th of August 1828. A genus of tropical
plants
  (Thunbergia), of the natural order Acanthaceae, which are cultivated as
evergreen
  climbers, is named after him.


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