Göran Wahlenberg

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Georg (Göran) Wahlenberg (Kroppa, Värmland County 1 October 1780 – Uppsala 22 March 1851) was a Swedish naturalist.

Wahlenberg matriculated at Uppsala University in 1792, received his doctorate in Medicine in 1806, was appointed botanices demonstrator in 1814, and professor of medicine and botany in 1829, succeeding Carl Peter Thunberg. He was the last holder of the undivided chair that in the previous century had been held by Linnaeus. After his death in 1851, the chair was divided into more delimited professorships, and botany became the main duty of the borgströmian professorship, at the time held by Elias Fries.

Wahlenberg made his main work in the field of plant geography and published, among other things the Flora lapponica (1812) and other works on the plant world of northernmost Sweden.

The harebell family of Wahlenbergia was named after him. The standard botanical author abbreviation Wahlenb. is applied to species he described.

[edit] See also

• Wahlenbergfjord, a fjord named in his honour.