- Göran Rothman
Göran (Georg) Rothman (
30 November 1739 Husebybruk,Småland ,Sweden -3 December 1778 Stockholm ), was a Swedish naturalist and physician.Biography
His father, Johan Stensson Rothman, was a teacher of Logic and Physics at a grammar school in
Växjö , the same school thatCarl von Linne attended. Their good relationship dated back to that period. Göran Rothman studied atUppsala University from 1757 and graduated underCarl von Linne . On 27 May 1763 he defended a dissertation on the disease "Raphania" (ergotism ), thought by Linnaeus to be caused by eating bread from freshly harvested grain and wrongly ascribed to the presence of seed of "Raphanus raphanistrum " L., the common radish.In 1765 he carried out research on the
Åland Islands and from 1773 to 1776 inLibya andTunisia . On his return he practised as physician inStockholm .He was notable for his translations of
Voltaire (1694-1778) andAlexander Pope (1688-1744) into Swedish. The plant genus "Rothmannia " was named after him by his friend, the Swedish botanistCarl Peter Thunberg .External links
* [http://www.ikfoundation.org/linnaeus/apostles/g-rothman.html Biography]
* [http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/HIBD/Departments/Library/LinnaeanDiss.shtml Dissertation under Linnaeus]
* [http://runeberg.org/sbh/b0375.html Eintrag im "Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon"]
* [http://www.bioresurs.uu.se/skolprojektlinne/pdf/apostles.pdf Apostles of Linnaeus]
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