KARL See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

PETER See also:

• KARL PETER THUNBERG (1743-1828)

THUNBERG (1743-1828)  , See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish naturalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• JONKOPING

Jonkoping on the 11th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1743, and became a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

• LINNAEUS

Linnaeus at the university of See also:

• UPSALA, or UPPSALA

Upsala . After graduating in See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine there in 1770 he obtained an See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment as surgeon in the Dutch See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India See also:

• COMPANY

Company, and sailed to the Cape of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

Hope in 1772 . He spent three years there, and then went to See also:

• JAPAN

Japan, where he remained till 1778, engaged in making collections of See also:

• PLANTS

plants . On his return in 1779 he visited See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, and made the acquaintance of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

Banks . In 1781 he was appointed demonstrator of See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany at Upsala, and he succeeded the younger Linnaeus as See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of botany in 1784 . He published his See also:

• FLORA

Flora japonica in 1784, and in 1788 he began to publish his travels . He completed his Prodomus plantarum in 1800, his Icones plantarum japonicarum in 1805, and his Flora capensis in 1813 . He published numerous See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs in the transactions of many Swedish and other scientific See also:

• SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies, of sixty-six of which he was an honorary member . He died near Upsala on the 8th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1828 . A genus of tropical plants (Thunbergia), of the natural See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order Acanthaceae, which are cultivated as See also:

• EVERGREEN

evergreen climbers, is named after him .