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Adam Afzelius

Adam Afzelius was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany. In 1793 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1800, Adam Afzelius became member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Works
De vegetabilibus svecanis observationes et experimenta, 1785. • "The botanical history of Trifolium alpestre, medium, and pretense", London: Benjamin White and Son, 1791. • "Observations on the genus Pausus, and description of a new species", London: Benjamin White and Son, 1798. • Genera Plantarum Guineensium, 1804. • Remedia guineensia quorum collectionem quintam, 1813–17 (one of many authors). • Stirpium in Guinea medicinalium species novæ, 1818. • Reliquiae Afzelianae : sistentes icones fungorum quos in Guinea collegit et in aere incisas excudi; curavit Adamus Afzelius. interpretatur Elias Magnus Fries (1860). • "Adam Afzelius Sierra Leone Journal 1795–1796" (translated into English, 1967; Alexander Peter Kup; Carl Gösta Widstrand). ==References==
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