Fredrik Hasselquist (3 January 1722 – 9 February 1752) was a

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traveller and naturalist. Hasselquist was born at Törnevalla, which is two kilometers east of Linghem, Östergötland. He studied under

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and became one of the "

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". On account of the frequently expressed regrets of

at the lack of information regarding the natural history of the

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, Hasselquist resolved to undertake a journey to that country. With a sufficient subscription having been obtained to defray expenses, he reached

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towards the end of 1749. He visited parts of

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and the Land of Palestine, making large natural history collections, but his constitution, naturally weak, gave way under the fatigues of travel, and he died near Smyrna on his way home. His collections reached home in safety, and five years after his death his notes were published by Linnaeus under the title ''Iter Palæstinum, Eller Resa til Heliga Landet, Förrättad Ifrån år 1749 til 1752'', which was translated into French and German in 1762 and into English in 1766 (as ''Voyages and Travels in the Levant, in the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52''). He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1750. Hasselquist is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, '' Ptyodactylus hasselquistii''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Hasselquist", pp. 117-118).

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*"Hasselquists, Fredric"; " Linnæus, Carl" (1757).
Iter Palæstinum, Eller, Resa til Heliga Landet, Förrättad Infrån år 1749 til 1752
'. Stockholm: Lars Salvius. 620 pp. *"Hasselquist, Frederick"; "Linnæus, Charles" (1766).
Voyages and Travels in the Levant in the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52: Containing Observations in Natural History, Physick, Agriculture, and Commerce, Particularly on the Holy Land, and the Natural History of the Scriptures
' London: L. Davis and C. Reymers. 456 pp. * Bodenheimer FS (1952).
Frederic Hasselquist in Palestine, 1751"
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'' 2 (1): 6-14. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hasselquist, Fredrik 1722 births 1752 deaths People from Linköping Municipality Swedish biologists Swedish naturalists Swedish explorers Uppsala University alumni Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Age of Liberty people Natural history of Palestine (region)