See also: Rudbeck

Olaus or Olof Olai Rudbeck the Young person is a explorer and a Naturaliste Swedish, born the March 15th 1660 with Uppsala and dead the March 23rd 1740 in this same city.

He is the son Olof Rudbeck (1630-1702), professor of Médecine to the Université of Uppsala where he succeeds his father. This botanist and distinguished ornithologist succeed obtains his title of doctor in 1690 with Utrecht. He travels in Lapland in 1695 within a forwarding financed by the king with the mission of studying nature and in particular the mountains. He brings back many specimens of plants and birds. Only part of its manuscript appears, the remainder of its manuscript is destroyed by the fire which in 1702 devastation most of the town of Uppsala. Its collection (of birds, plants, insects, etc) also disappears in this disaster. 215 of its illustrations colors of birds survive. The young person Carl von Linné (1707-1778) is employed by Rudbeck as tutor of his young people wire. Linné will describe the birds being reproduced on the illustrations of Rudbeck and will dedicate to this last the Rudbeckia of Asteraceae.

Rudbeck is diverted at the beginning of the 18th century of the Natural history to devote to research on the hypothetical relations between the languages Hebrew and Lapon. His/her sister, Wendela, Marie with Peter Olai Nobelius from which goes down celebrate themselves it Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).

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