Jacob Georg Agardh (8 December 1813 in

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipality, Scania County. The Öre ...

, Sweden – 17 January 1901 in Lund, Sweden) was a

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, phycologist, and

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. He was the son of

Carl Adolph Agardh Carl Adolph Agardh (23 January 1785 in Båstad, Sweden – 28 January 1859 in Karlstad) was a Swedish botanist specializing in algae, who was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad. Biography In 1807 he was appointed teacher of mathematics ...

, and from 1854 until 1879 was professor of botany at

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for the

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Botaniska trädgården in Lund. In 1849, he was elected a member of the

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. Agardh was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the

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in 1878. It is said that the naturalist Mary Philadelphia Merrifield learnt Swedish in order that she could correspond with him.

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His principal work, ''Species, Genera et Ordines Algarum'' (4 vols., Lund, 1848–63), was a standard authority.

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* 1813 births 1901 deaths Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Lund University faculty Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences People from Lund Pteridologists Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Swedish botanists Swedish mycologists Swedish phycologists Swedish taxonomists Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala {{Sweden-botanist-stub

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