Elias Magnus Fries
Swedish mycologist and botanist
Elias Magnus Fries FRS FRSE FLS was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the "Linnaeus of Mycology". In his works he described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and lichen species, many of which remain... Wikipedia
Born: August 15, 1794, Femsjö, Sweden
Died: February 8, 1878 (age 83 years), Uppsala, Sweden
Grandchildren: Robert Elias Fries, Harald Elias Fries, Otto Hjalmar Elias Fries, and more
Children: Theodor Magnus Fries, Oscar Robert Fries, Sanna Christina Fries, and more
Author abbrev. (botany): Fr
Awards: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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