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Murray, Johan Andreas (1740-1791)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Johan Andreas
Last name
Murray
Initials
J.A.
Life Dates
1740 - 1791
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae Pteridophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), B, E, G-DC, H, LINN
Countries
Europe: Germany
Associate(s)
Murray, Adolf (1751-1803) (brother)
Biography
Swedish physician and botanist from Stockholm who was a pupil of Linnaeus (1756-1760) and later studied at Göttingen (1760-1763). He was appointed Professor of medicine and botany at Göttingen and director of the Göttingen botanic garden (1769). He corresponded extensively with Linnaeus (1760-1776), published on plants of the Göttingen botanic garden and was responsible for the fourteenth edition of Systema Vegetabile. His herbarium was formerly at LINN but sold in lots; part of the original material was acquired by BM (1872) and part by K. Not to be confused with James Alexander Murray who collected in India and Pakistan.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 446; Hedge, I.C. & Lamond, J.M., Index Coll. Edindb. Herb. (1970): 113; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 48; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. M (1976): 573, 574;
Murray, Johan Andreas (1740-1791)
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