Carl Skottsberg
{{Short description|Swedish botanist and Antarctic explorer (1880–1963)}}
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| birth_place = Karlshamn
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Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg (1 December 1880 – 14 June 1963) was a Swedish botanist and explorer of Antarctica.{{Cite journal | last1 = Salisbury | first1 = E. J. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1964.0015 | title = Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg 1880-1963 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 10 | pages = 244–256| year = 1964 | doi-access = free }}Nordisk familjebok, vol. 25 (1917), col. [https://runeberg.org/nfce/0620.html 1180], and vol. 38 (Suppl., 1926), col. [https://runeberg.org/nfcr/0210.html 368]
Life
Skottsberg was born in Karlshamn on 1 December 1880 the son of Carl Adolf Skottsberg a schoolmaster and his wife, Maria Louisa Pfeiffer.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
He was educated locally then studied Sciences at Uppsala University from 1898, specialising in Botany, and receiving his doctorate (PhD) there in 1907.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
From 1901 to 1903 Skottsberg served as official botanist to the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901 to 1903 on the ship Antarctic. On his return to Sweden, Skottsberg published (1905) the first comprehensive phytogeographic study of the flora of southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.{{cite book |last=Pisano Valdés |first=E.|author-link=Edmundo Pisano |date=1977|chapter=Fitogeografía de Fuego-Patagonia chilena. I.-Comunidades vegetales entre las latitudes 52 y 56º S|location=Punta Arenas |page=122|title=Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia|volume=VIII |ref=Pisano1977|language=es}} Later he led the Swedish Magellanic Expedition to Patagonia, 1907 to 1909. Carl Skottsberg is believed to have been the last to have seen the Santalum fernandezianum tree alive when he visited the Juan Fernández Islands in 1908.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
He was conservator at the Uppsala University Botanical Museum 1909 to 1914, but led the work on the new Botanical Garden in Gothenburg from 1915, and was appointed professor and director of the garden there, Göteborg Botanical Garden, in 1919.
In 1909, he married Inga Margareta Reuter.
Skottsberg was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and several other Swedish learned societies, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. That same year he presided the 7th International Botanical Congress. He was awarded the Linnean Society of London's Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1958 and the Linnean Medal in 1959.
He is buried at Östra kyrkogården in Gothenburg.
Publications
- The Wilds of Patagonia (1919)
- Remarks on the Hawaiian Flora (1939)
- Observations on Hawaiian Violets (1940)
- Communities of Marine algae (1941)
- Botanical Survey of the Falkland Islands
- The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island
- Meddelanden (1963)
Honours
- Skottsbergia {{Au|Cardot 1905}} (genus of moss in Ditrichaceae family),[http://www.slu.se/Global/externwebben/centrumbildningar-projekt/bryoconservation/Pdf%20ArtFaktablad/Faktablad/Skottsbergia_paradoxa.PDF Skottsbergia paradoxa.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924102904/http://www.slu.se/Global/externwebben/centrumbildningar-projekt/bryoconservation/Pdf%20ArtFaktablad/Faktablad/Skottsbergia_paradoxa.PDF |date=2015-09-24 }} Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
- Skottsbergiella {{Au|Petr. 1927}} (genus of Fungi in Gnomoniaceae family),{{cite web |title=Species Fungorum - GSD Species |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/GSDSpecies.asp?RecordID=263123 |website=www.speciesfungorum.org |access-date=27 October 2022}}
- Skottsbergiella {{Au|Epling 1935}} (genus of Lamiaceae) a synonym of Cuminia {{Au|Colla}},{{cite web |title=Skottsbergiella Epling {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:296359-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 October 2022 |language=en}}
- Skottsbergiliana {{Au|H.St.John 1974}} (a genus of Cucurbitaceae), now a synonym of Sicyos,{{cite web |title=Skottsbergiliana H.St.John {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:13416-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 October 2022 |language=en}}
- Skottsbergiella {{Au|Boelcke 1982}} (genus of Brassicaceae), now a synonym of Xerodraba {{Au|Skottsb.}},{{cite web |title=Xerodraba Skottsb. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:288296-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 October 2022 |language=en}}
- Skottsbergianthus {{Au|Boelcke 1984}} (genus of Brassicaceae), now a synonym of Xerodraba,{{cite web |title=Skottsbergianthus Boelcke {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:893608-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 October 2022 |language=en}}
Botanical Reference
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Carl Skottsberg |sopt=t}}
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Category:20th-century Swedish botanists
Category:Botanists active in Antarctica
Category:Swedish explorers of Antarctica
Category:Uppsala University alumni
Category:Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Category:People from Karlshamn