Johan Linder

{{Short description|Swedish botanist and doctor}}

File:Johan Lindestolpe.jpg

Johans Linder (1678 - March 24, 1724) was a Swedish botanist and medical doctor who was later ennobled as Lindestolpe.{{cite journal |last1=Durtsche|first1=Richard D.| last2= Thieret| first2= John W.|title=Johan Linder (Lindestolpe) (1676-1724), Eponym of the Generic Name Linder a Thunberg (Plantae: Lauraceae) |journal=Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science |date=2005 |volume=v.66:no.1 (2005:Spring) |page=44-47 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175711#page/46/mode/1up |access-date=3 March 2024 |publisher=The Academy|doi=10.3101/1098-7096(2005)66[44:JLLEOT]2.0.CO;2 }} He wrote a book about natural dyes and their sources including plants, insects,

and minerals.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-s0DAAAQBAJ&dq=johans+linder&pg=PA168 | title=Silk and Tea in the North: Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe | isbn=9781137455444 | last1=Hodacs | first1=Hanna | date=17 May 2016 | publisher=Springer }}

He was born 1678 in Karlstad, Sweden and went to university in Uppsala with his first thesis titled De pomis hesperidum ("On the Apple of the Hesperides") in 1702. He defended a second thesis in 1705 titled De Foeda lue venerea dicta translated in 1713 into Swedish as Tankar om then smittosamma sjukom franzoser ("Thoughts about the very infectious French disease syphilis"). He encouraged other doctors to aid those inflicted with syphilis, rather than embarrass them with "moral preaching", although at the time there was little they could do to help.{{cite book |last1=Ajanki |first1=Tord |title=Medicinal Reading: Of genius, pure chance and dedicated hard work |date=1 June 1995 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-91-86274-61-0 |pages=150,152,162-163 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IItczvMCtCQC&dq=johan+linder&pg=PA152 |access-date=7 April 2024 |language=en}}

He was appointed a member of the Medical College in 1719 the same year he was ennobled as Lindestolpe.

The genus Lindera, spicebush, is named for him, dedicated to him by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1783.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M6zWDwAAQBAJ&dq=johans+linder&pg=PT381 | title=The Etymology of Chemical Names: Tradition and Convenience vs. Rationality in Chemical Nomenclature | date=8 October 2019 | publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG | isbn=9783110611243 }}

Linder married twice, first to Anna Öhrner and then to Eva Christina Cronhielm in 1720.

He died March 24, 1724 in Stockholm.