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Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Italy and Asia, collecting and describing people ...
Carl Peter Thunberg (Jönköping, 11 de novembro de 1743 — Thunaberg, Uppsala, 8 de agosto de 1828) foi um explorador, naturalista e botânico sueco.
Carl Peter Thunberg est un naturaliste suédois, né le 11 novembre 1743 à Jönköping et mort le 8 août 1828 à Thunaberg près d'Uppsala. Il a été surnommé le « Père de la botanique sud-africaine » et le « Linné japonais » et considéré comme l'un des apôtres de Linné les plus productifs [1].
THUNBERG, CARL PETER (b. Jönköping, Sweden. 11 November 1743; d. Tunaberg, near Uppsala, Sweden, 8 August 1828), botany. After studying at Jönköping, Thunberg entered Uppsala University in 1761, where he soon came under the influence of Linnaeus.
Carl Peter Thunberg Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist, and he took over Linnaeus’ professors chair (after a short intermission where it was held by Linnaeus’ son). He is most famous for his botanical work, but he was also a prominent entomologist who described numerous scarab taxa, including many South African species in his Coleoptera ...
Thunberg was appointed botanical demonstrator at Uppsala and later succeeded the younger Linnaeus as Professor of Botany (1784-1828). Specimens from Japan and South Africa were donated with the Banks herbarium in 1827, although the majority of Thunberg material remains in Sweden.
The Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg, born in 1743 and one of Carl Linneaus' pupils in Uppsala, was the first scientist to collect and describe plants in Japan using the Linnaean approach. His book, Flora Japonica (1784), was the first flora of Japanese plants.
