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Peter Jonas Bergius

Swedish botanist (1730–1790) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Peter Jonas Bergius
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Peter Jonas Bergius (13 July 1730 – 10 July 1790) was a Swedish medical doctor and botanist.[1]

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Peter Jonas Bergius, 1847 lithography

In 1758 Bergius was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[1] In 1768 he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770 [3] and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1785.[4]

The standard author abbreviation P.J.Bergius is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
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Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei, 1767
  • Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei (in Latin). Stockholm. 1767 – via Lars Salvius.[6]

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