Installed a commemorative plaque on the house in Vadstena where he lived for many years
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Erik Acharius
Erik Acharius was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology". Acharius was famously the last pupil of Carl Linnaeus.
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science · Swedish botanist (1757-1819) · botanist · physician · lichenologist · mycologist · naturalist · botanical collector · scientific collector · scientific illustrator · also Erik Acharius, Ach., Acharius
Born 10 October 1757 · Died 14 August 1819 · Q365923
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1819· 1 entry
Died 1819-08-14.
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1815· 1 entry
Which contained illustrations of every species and variation of the genus Cenomyce as described in Lichenographia universalis
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1809· 1 entry
And served as the basis for his own work
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Friedrich Weber (1781–1823) and Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr (1780–1808), two German naturalists, published Naturhistorische Reise durch einen Theil Schwedens which heavily featured his work on lichens and also included
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Studied at Uppsala University (1773).
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1757· 1 entry
Born 1757-10-10.
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