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Lars Roberg (4 January 1664 – 21 May 1742) was a
Swedish
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physician
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and natural science researcher. He served as a professor of anatomy and medicine at Uppsala University.
Biography
Roberg was born in
Stockholm
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, Sweden. He was the son of the royal
apothecary
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Daniel Roberg. He matriculated at
Uppsala University
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at a young age in 1675, and left for a long foreign journey in 1680 to
Germany
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,
France
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and
England
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, during which he studied at the
University of Wittenberg
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and
University of Leiden
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. He completed his doctorate in medicine at Leiden in 1693.
He became a professor of anatomy and practical medicine at
Uppsala University
Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in opera ...
in 1697 and retained the chair until 1740. Lars Roberg was the teacher of
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
and
Peter Artedi
Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius (27 February 170528 September 1735) was a Swedish naturalist who is known as the "father of ichthyology".
Artedi was born in Anundsjö in the province of Ångermanland. Intending to become a clergyman, he went ...
.
In 1708, he founded a clinic for the purpose of facilitating the practical education of medical students.
''Nosocomium academicum'' at Oxenstiernska huset in Uppsala would later be merged into the
Uppsala University Hospital
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.
He was one of the first to be elected to the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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after its formation in 1739. Lars Roberg died at
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...
in 1742.
References
1664 births
1742 deaths
Physicians from Stockholm
Uppsala University alumni
University of Wittenberg alumni
Leiden University alumni
Academic staff of Uppsala University
17th-century Swedish physicians
18th-century Swedish physicians
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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