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Last Name Acharius

Given Name Erik

alt. Names E A. ; botanical shortname: Ach ;

Marriage

Children painter Adolph Acharius (c. 1790-18xx)

Year born 1757 in Gävle

Year died 1819

Place of death Vadstena

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education at Uppsala University (matriculation 1773), one of the last of the students of Linnaeus; medical studies at Lund University (Ph.D. 1782)

Country of Activity Sweden

Worked for Archiv für die Botanik (1769-1805) ; Lichenographiae Suecia prodromus (1798), Methodus lichenum (1803), Lichenographia universalis (1810), Monog. Pyrenula (1812) ; J. P. Westring: Svenska lafvarnes färghist (1805-8) ; C. F. Thunberg: Flora Capensis (1807-20) ;

Patronage Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm; director of the Vadstena Hospital (which he had initiated) in 1795,

Collaborators

Techniques botanical drawing and watercolours ; hand-colouring

Sample(s) www.nrm.se/images/18.1416bda210eb7cf4e7880008479/methodus.jpg ;

Archival sources British Museum ; www.nrm.se/frontpage/researchandcollections/botany/cryptogamicbotany/virtualexhibitions/erikacharius.310_en.html ;

Published sources AKL 1 1992: 217 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Nordisk familjebok 1(1904): 96 ; Rutger Sernander in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, vol. 1: 28-80 ; Dict Sci Biogr.1(1970): 45 ;

other Mostly known as professional botanist and as the "father of lichenology".

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