Peter Jonas Bergius
Swedish botanist (1730–1790)
Peter Jonas Bergius (13 July 1730 – 10 July 1790) was a Swedish medical doctor and botanist.[1]
In 1758 Bergius was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[1] In 1768 he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770 [3] and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1785.[4]
The standard author abbreviation P.J.Bergius is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
Works
- Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei (in Latin). Stockholm. 1767.
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References
- ^ a b "Peter Jonas Bergius". Bergius Botanical Garden. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- ^ Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, 3:555–558.
- ^ "Fellow Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. P.J.Bergius.
- ^ Gunn, Mary (1981). Botanical exploration of southern Africa : an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora : biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times. L. E. W. Codd. Cape Town: Published for the Botanical Research Institute by A.A. Balkema. p. 56. ISBN 0-86961-129-1. OCLC 8591273.
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