Sextus Otto Lindberg
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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,[1] and educated in Uppsala.[2] He worked in the Grand Duchy of Finland, then part of the Russian Empire. He became professor of botany, and dean of the physics-mathematics faculty, at the University of Helsingfors.[3][4]
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. He was the father of the botanist Harald Lindberg (1871–1963).[4]
Notes
- ^ The Midland Naturalist vols. 11–12 (1888), p. 94; archive.org.
- ^ Arild Stubhaug (4 November 2010). Gösta Mittag-Leffler: A Man of Conviction. Springer. p. 205. ISBN 978-3-642-11672-8. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
- ^ Arild Stubhaug (4 November 2010). Gösta Mittag-Leffler: A Man of Conviction. Springer. p. 240. ISBN 978-3-642-11672-8. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
- ^ a b Umberto Quattrocchi (26 April 2006). CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology - 3 Volume Set. Taylor & Francis. p. 1226. ISBN 978-1-4200-0322-2. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Lindb.
External links
- (in Swedish) www.nad.riksarkivet.se S Otto Lindberg.
- (in Finnish) www.luomus.fi, Sextus Otto Lindberg.
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