Anders Sparrman [SEP] occupation
Anders Sparrman
Anders Sparrman (27 February 1748, Tensta, Uppland – 9 August 1820) was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Biografy.
Sparrman was the son of a clergyman. At the age of nine he enrolled at Uppsala University, beginning medical studies at fourteen and becoming one of the outstanding pupils of Linnaeus. In 1765 he went on a voyage to China as ship's doctor, returning two years later and describing the animals and plants he had encountered. On this voyage
he had collected in South Africa and the South Pacific, some of which were new to science. He published an "Ornithology of Sweden" in 1806.
The asteroid 16646 Sparrman bears his name. The Swedish novelist Per Wästberg has written a biographical novel about Sparrman which was published in English in 2010, under the title as "The Journey of Anders Sparrman". Anders Erikson Sparrman is denoted by the author abbreviation Sparrm. when citing a botanical name.
See also.
- European and American voyages of scientific