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ERIK ACHARIUS (1757-1819)

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ERIK

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ACHARIUS (1757-1819)  ,
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Swedish botanist, was
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born on the loth of
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October 1757, and in 1773 entered
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Upsala University, where he was a
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pupil of
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Linnaeus . He graduated M.D. at
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Lund in 1782, and in 18o1 was appointed
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professor of
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botany at Wadstena
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Academy . He devoted himself to the study of
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lichens, and all his publications were connected with that class of
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plants, his Lichenographia Universalis (
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Gottingen, 1804) being the most important . He died at Wadstena on the 13th of
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August 1819 .

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