Peter Artedi

Peter Artedi is a Naturaliste Swedish, born the March 10th 1705 with Anundsjö in the province of Ångermanland (Sweden) and deceased the September 27th 1735 with Amsterdam (Netherlands).

In the intention to become man of the church, it goes, in 1724, with the Université of Uppsala to study the Théologie there but it is interested then in the Médecine and at the Natural history, especially the study of the Poisson S. In 1728, its compatriot Carl von Linné (1707-1778) arrives in its turn at Uppsala; a friendship binds soon the two men. In 1732, they leave unit Uppsala, Artedi for the Great Britain and Linné for the Lapland; before their departure, they bequeath their manuscripts in the event of death mutually.

Artedi drowns accidentally with Amsterdam where it had been engaged to carry out the catalog of the collections of the Cabinet of curiosities of Albertus Seba (1665-1736), a Dutch richissime which had constituted one of the richest collections of natural history of its time. According to their agreement, Linné inherits the manuscripts of Artedi which publishes its Bibliotheca Ichthyologica and its Philosophia Ichthyologica , accompanied by a biography of their author, with Leyde in 1738.

It follows a classification based on one, then one and one. It thus distinguishes four orders from fish and one gathering the Cétacé S. It details 47 kinds and 230 species. Artedi does not use a binomial system, it is Linné which founds it in its edition. Thus Artedi quotes Zeus belly aculeato, cauda in extremo circinata that Linné simplifies in Zeus faber . This species had been named Faber sive Gallus Marinus by Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566) and by other authors Piscis Jovii . Jovii is translated by Zeus by Artedi and the name of Rondelet, faber , becoming the specific name. Anarhichas Lupus marinus will nostras becomes thanks to Linné Anarhichas lupus and Clupea, maxilla inferiore longiore, maculis nigris carens: Harengus vel Chalcis Auctorum, Herring vel Hering Anglis, Germanis Belgis becoming more simply Clupea harengus .

Linné wrote: Thus perishes, with the flower of the age and the apogee of its force, that which was the ornament and the glory of its country! Most eminent of the ichtyologistes pérites in the waves, him which had devoted its existence to discovered their inhabitants!

Source

David Starr Jordan (1905). has guide to the study off fishes. Vol. I. Henry Holt and Company (New York): xxvi + 624 p.

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