Biography

Swedish botanist and botanical artist perhaps best known for his work Bilder ur Nordens Flora and writings on Linnaeus. After a childhood marked by his father's death, Lindman displayed a talent for music and art, but was discouraged from a career in these fields by his mother. Instead, he studied botany and zoology at the University of Uppsala from 1874, and in 1886 achieved his doctorate. Going on to teach as Associate Professor of Botany, he was appointed Regnellian Amanuensis at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in 1887, which also involved assisting at the Bergius Botanic Garden. The botanist and Swedish expatriate A.F. Regnell (1807-1884) had, on his death, left finances for plant collecting trips to South America; Lindman and his associate G.O.A. Malme were the first recipients of the grant, setting off to Brazil and Paraguay in 1892. They collected together at Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil, and in the western state of Mato Grosso. On his return two years later, Lindman again took up work at Uppsala, and from 1896 to 1900 was a royal tutor. From 1904 until his retirement in 1923, he was Professor and Director of the Botany Department at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, making several trips to the United Kingdom to share research. He wrote many papers on his findings in South America, and also collected in Norway, Sweden and Denmark many times, and in Madeira in 1885. Between 1901 and 1905 Lindman published the magnificently illustrated Bilder ur Nordens Flora (Illustrations of the Flora of the North) based on J.W. Palmstruch's Svensk Botanik.

Biography

Swedish botanist and botanical artist perhaps best known for his work Bilder ur Nordens Flora and writings on Linnaeus. After a childhood marked by his father's death, Lindman displayed a talent for music and art, but was discouraged from a career in these fields by his mother. Instead, he studied botany and zoology at the University of Uppsala from 1874, and in 1886 achieved his doctorate. Going on to teach as Associate Professor of Botany, he was appointed Regnellian Amanuensis at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in 1887, which also involved assisting at the Bergius Botanic Garden. The botanist and Swedish expatriate A.F. Regnell (1807-1884) had, on his death, left finances for plant collecting trips to South America; Lindman and his associate G.O.A. Malme were the first recipients of the grant, setting off to Brazil and Paraguay in 1892. They collected together at Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil, and in the western state of Mato Grosso. On his return two years later, Lindman again took up work at Uppsala, and from 1896 to 1900 was a royal tutor. From 1904 until his retirement in 1923, he was Professor and Director of the Botany Department at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, making several trips to the United Kingdom to share research. He wrote many papers on his findings in South America, and also collected in Norway, Sweden and Denmark many times, and in Madeira in 1885. Between 1901 and 1905 Lindman published the magnificently illustrated Bilder ur Nordens Flora (Illustrations of the Flora of the North) based on J.W. Palmstruch's Svensk Botanik.