ELIAS

See also:

• MAGNUS, HEINRICH GUSTAV (1802-1870)

MAGNUS

See also:

• FRIES
• ELIAS MAGNUS FRIES (1794–1878)
• FRIES, JOHN (c. 1764-1825)

FRIES (1794–1878)  , Swedish botanist, was born at Femsjo, Smaland, on the 15th of August 1794 . From his father, the pastor of the church at Femsjo, he early acquired an extensive knowledge of flowering plants . In 1811 he entered the university of Lund, where in 1814 he was elected docent of botany and in 1824 professor . In 1834 he became professor of practical economy at Upsala, and in 1844 and 1848 he represented the university of that city in the Rigsdag . On the death of Goran Wahlenberg (178o–1851) he was appointed professor of botany at Upsala, where he died on the 8th of February 1878 . Fries was admitted a member of the Swedish Royal Academy in 1847, and a foreign member of the Royal Society of London in 1875 . As an author on the Cryptogamia he was in the first rank . He wrote Novitiae florae Suecicae (1814 and 1823); Observationes mycologicae (1815) ; Flora Hollandica (1817–1818) ; Systema mycologicum (1821–1829); Systema orbis vegetabilis, not completed (1825); Elenchus fungorum (1828); Lichenographia Europaea (1831); Epicrisis systematis mycologici (1838; 2nd ed., or Hymenomycetes Europaei, 1874); Summa vegetabilium Scandinaviae (1846); Sveriges dtliga och giftiga Svampar, with coloured plates (186o); Monographia hymenomycetum Suecicae (1863), with the Icones hymenomycetum, vol. i . (1867), and pt. i. vol. ii . (1877) .