Anders Sparrman
Anders Sparrman is a Naturaliste Swedish, born with Tensta (province of Uppland) the February 27th 1748 and deceased with Stockholm the August 9th 1820.
Sparrman is the son of a priest. At the nine years age, it begins its studies at the university of Uppsala, at 14 years starts studies of medicine. It is one of the pupils of Carl von Linné. In 1765, it leaves in China as doctor on board a ship. It will return two years later and will describe from there in a work the animals and the plants which it met.
Without money but wishing to travel, it accepts a station of tutor to the Cape; it arrives there in July 1772 after seven months of sea. When James Cook arrives in October of the same year, at the time of its second voyage in the Pacifique, Johann Reinhold Forster and of his/her son Georg, two naturalists who take part in forwarding, return visit in Sparrman and obtain that he becomes their assistant. In July 1775, it returns to the Cape where it exerts medicine again. It gains sufficient money to finance a voyage in the interior of the grounds.
In 1776, it turns over to Sweden where it was made doctor honoris causa in its absence. It is also made member of the royal Académie of sciences of Sweden of Stockholm. It obtains the station of conservative of the collections of Natural history of the Academy in 1780, then the pulpit of Natural history and Pharmacologie in 1781 and expert in Collegium Medicum in 1790. In 1787, it tries to take part in a forwarding in West Africa but without success and it must return to Sweden.
The publications of Sparrman are numerous. Most famous is its accounts of voyage in South Africa and with Cook, published in French in 1787 under the title of a Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, the Antarctic Circle and around the world, like in the countries of Hottentos and the Kaffirs and, in 1789, English under that of has off voyage to the Cape Good Hope, towards the Antarctic whodunnit circle, and round the world: Goal chiefly into the country off the Hottentots and Kaffirs, from the year 1772 to 1776 .
It also made off appear a Catalog the Museum Carlsonianum (1786-1789) and a Ornithology off Sweden (1806).
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