Sextus Otto Lindberg (29 March 1835 – 20 February 1889) was a Swedish physician and botanist, known as a
bryologist.
Life
He was born in
Stockholm, and educated in
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Located north of the c ...
. He worked in the
Grand Duchy of Finland
The Grand Duchy of Finland ( fi, Suomen suuriruhtinaskunta; sv, Storfurstendömet Finland; russian: Великое княжество Финляндское, , all of which literally translate as Grand Principality of Finland) was the predecess ...
, then part of the
Russian Empire
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. He became professor of botany, and dean of the physics-mathematics faculty, at the
University of Helsingfors.
He was honored with the genus name ''Lindbergia'' in the family
Leskeaceae, published by Swedish bryologist
Nils Conrad Kindberg in 1897. His son Harald was honored with the genus name ''
Lindbergella'' in the family
Poaceae, published by Irish botanist
Norman Loftus Bor in 1969.
Lindberg died at
Helsingfors
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The cit ...
. He was the father of the botanist
Harald Lindberg (1871–1963).
Notes
External links
www.nad.riksarkivet.se ''S Otto Lindberg''.
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1835 births
1889 deaths
Swedish botanists
19th-century Swedish physicians
Academic personnel of the University of Helsinki
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Bryologists