Adam Afzelius
Swedish botanist
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Adam Afzelius was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany. In 1793 he... Wikipedia
Born: October 8, 1750, Larv, Sweden
Died: January 20, 1837 (age 86 years), Uppsala, Sweden
Partner: Anna Sofia Dassau
Author abbrev. (botany): Afzel