Jacob Georg Agardh

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Jacob Georg Agardh (1813 - 1901) painted by Oscar Björck in 1893.

Jacob Georg Agardh (8 December 1813 in Lund, Sweden – 7 January 1901 in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist.[1]

He was the son of Carl Adolph Agardh, and from 1854 until 1879 was professor of botany at Lund University.[2][3] Agardh designed the current 1862 blueprints for the botanical garden Botaniska trädgården in Lund.[4]

In 1849, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Agardh was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1878.[5] It is said that the naturalist Mary Philadelphia Merrifield learnt Swedish in order that she could correspond with him.[6]

Works

His principal work, Species, Genera et Ordines Algarum (4 vols., Lund, 1848–63), was a standard authority.[2]

The standard author abbreviation J.Agardh is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

References

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Further reading

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