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Göran Wahlenberg

Born	Göran Wahlenberg (1780-10-01)1 October 1780 Kroppa, Värmland County
Died	22 March 1851(1851-03-22) (aged 70) Uppsala
Other names	Georg Wahlenberg
Education	Uppsala University
Occupation(s)	Chair of Botany and Medicine
Employer	Uppsala University
Known for	Plant geography
Title	Professor
Predecessor	Carl Peter Thunberg

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

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. He was among the first major scholars to contribute to the plant taxonomy and geography of the High Tatras in the Habsburg monarchy where he carried out research in 1813 (he also determined mountain elevations, but some were later disproved by Ludwig Greiner). Two of the highest mountain lakes in the Tatras, now in Slovakia, are named Upper Wahlenberg Tarn (Vyšné Wahlenbergovo pleso; elevation 2,157 m or 7,077 ft) and Lower Wahlenberg Tarn (Nižné Wahlenbergovo pleso; 2,053 m or 6,736 ft) in his memory.^[1]

Wahlenberg was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1808.

The flowering plant genus Wahlenbergia^[2] and the crustose lichen genus Wahlenbergiella are named after him,^[3] as was a species of wood-rush: Luzula wahlenbergii.^[4] He died in Uppsala.

The standard author abbreviation Wahlenb. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[5]

References

^ Furkotská Valley with Upper and Lower Wahlenberg Lakes.
^ "Australian Floral Emblems - Wahlenbergia gloriosa". Reprinted from an issue of a newsletter of the Canberra Region of SGAP. Australian Plants Online. September 1982. Archived from the original on 13 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
^ Gueidan, Cécile; Savić, Sanja; Thüs, Holger; Roux, Claude; Keller, Christine; Tibell, Leif; Prieto, Maria; Heiðmarsson, Starri; Breuss, Othmar; Orange, Alan; Fröberg, Lars; Wynns, Anja Amtoft; Navarro-Rosinés, Pere; Krzewicka, Beata; Pykälä, Juha; Grube, Martin; Lutzoni, François (2009). "Generic classification of the Verrucariaceae (Ascomycota) based on molecular and morphological evidence: recent progress and remaining challenges". Taxon. 58 (1): 184–208. doi:10.1002/tax.581019.
^ "Luzula wahlenbergii Rupr". The Flora of Svalbard. Svalbardflora.net. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
^ International Plant Names Index. Wahlenb.

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