Nils Johan Andersson [SEP] occupation
Nils Johan Andersson
Nils Johan Andersson (20 February 1821 Gärdserum, Småland, Sweden – 27 March 1880 Stockholm), was a Swedish botanist and traveller. He studied at Uppsala University between 1840-45 obtaining a DSc. On 30 September 1851 he accompanied the Swedish expedition as botanist aboard the frigate , sailing from Karlskrona under the command of Captain Christian Adolf Virgin (1797-1870), on the first Swedish circumnavigation, calling at Honolulu, Tahiti, San Francisco, Sydney and Manila, various South American ports, the
member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1859.
Family.
Andersson was married to the artist Anna Tigerhielm. Their son Johan Axel Gustaf Acke (1859-1924) was a well-known painter, sculptor and illustrator.
Some works.
- "Enumeratio Plantarum in Insulis Galapagensibus huiusque Observatorum" - Nils Johan Andersson (1861)
- "En verldsomsegling" Stockholm 1853-1854, 3 vols, Leipzig 1854
- "Salices Lapponiæ" Uppsala 1845
- "Conspectus vegetationis Lapponiae" ca