Göran Rothman
Swedish naturalist and physician
Göran (Georg) Rothman (30 November 1739, in Husebybruk, Småland, Sweden – 3 December 1778, in Stockholm), was a Swedish naturalist, physician and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. The standard author abbreviation Rothman is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]
His father, Johan Stensson Rothman, was a teacher of Logic and Physics at a grammar school in Växjö, the same school that Carl von Linne attended. Their good relationship dated back to that period. Göran Rothman studied at Uppsala University from 1757 and graduated under Carl 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 in Åland and from 1773 to 1776 in Libya and Tunisia. On his return he practised as physician in Stockholm.
He was notable for his translations of Voltaire (1694–1778) and Alexander Pope (1688–1744) into Swedish. The plant genus Rothmannia was named after him by his friend, the Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg.
External links
- Biography
- Dissertation under Linnaeus
- Eintrag im Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon
- Apostles of Linnaeus
References
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Rothman.
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- Linnaeus bibliography
- Systema Naturae (1735)
- Fundamenta Botanica (1736)
- Bibliotheca Botanica (1736)
- Musa Cliffortiana (1736)
- Critica Botanica (1737)
- Flora Lapponica (1737)
- Genera Plantarum (1737)
- Hortus Cliffortianus (1737)
- Classes Plantarum (1738)
- Flora Svecica (1745)
- Fauna Svecica (1746)
- Philosophia Botanica (1751)
- Species Plantarum (1753)
- Centuria Insectorum (1763)
- Mantissa Plantarum Altera (1771)
- Systema Vegetabilium (1774)
- Taxonomy (biology)
- Linnaean taxonomy (Linnaean classification)
- Botanical nomenclature
- Zoological nomenclature
- Binomial nomenclature
- Taxa named by Linnaeus
- Natural history
- History of biology
- History of botany
- Scientific racism
- Expedition Linné
- Linnaea
- Linnaean Garden (including the Linnaeus Museum)
- Linnaeite
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- Linnaemyini
- 7412 Linnaeus
- Linnaeus Arboretum
- Linnaeus University
- Linnaeus's Hammarby
- Linné (crater)
- Linnéa
- Linnean Medal
- Linnean Society of London
- Swedish Linnaeus Society
- Linnean Society of New South Wales
- Linnean Tercentenary Medal
- Linneus, Maine
- Linneus, Missouri
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