Olof Rudbeck the Younger or Olaus Rudbeckius d.y. (15 March 1660 – 23 March 1740) was a

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explorer, scientist,

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and rector of

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Biography

Olof Rudbeck was born in

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, Sweden, the son of Olaus Rudbeck Sr. (1630–1702), a professor of medicine at

. He travelled to England, Holland and Germany in 1687 to study botany. Rudbeck took a medical degree at the

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in 1690. Returning to his home country in 1692, he succeeded his father as professor of medicine at

. Serving alongside

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(1664–1742), he specialized in anatomy, botany, zoology, and pharmacology, while Roberg gave lectures in medicine, surgery, physiology and chemistry. He travelled to Lapland in 1695, joining an expedition commissioned by the King

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(1655–1697), for which his mission was to study nature, the mountainous region in particular. He returned and published ''Lapponia illustrata'', an album of beautifully colored pictures of birds, flowers and scenery, for which he is best remembered. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Rudbeck turned his attention away from nature studies to speculation about the relationship between

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and Hungarian. To honour his accomplishments (and posthumously, those of his namesake father), he was

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in 1719 by Queen

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(1688–1741), as a "naturalized nobleman" (noble family of Rudbeck, nr. 1637). His student, the botanist

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(1707–1778), named a genus of flowers ''

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'' in honor of him and his father.

Personal life

Rudbeck was married three times. Rudbeck had 24 children with three wives. His sister, Wendela, married Peter Olai Nobelius, and from them descends the

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, including

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, founder of

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and

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, founder of the

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References

Other sources

*Krook, Hans (1988) ''Olof Rudbeck d.y:s Svenska fåglar '' (Stockholm : Coeckelberghs)

External links

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Olof Rudbeck ''Lapponia illustrata''
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