Sextus Otto Lindberg (29 March 1835 – 20 February 1889) was a Swedish physician and botanist, known as a bryologist.

Life

He was born in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, and educated in Uppsala. He worked in the Grand Duchy of Finland, then part of the Russian Empire. He became professor of botany, and dean of the physics-mathematics faculty, at the

University of Helsingfors The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the R ...

. He was honored with the genus name ''Lindbergia'' in the family

Leskeaceae Leskeaceae is a family of mosses belonging to the order Hypnales. Genera As recognised by World Flora Online (2022); * '' Bryonorrisia'' L.R.Stark & W.R.Buck (2 species) * '' Chileobryon'' Enroth (1 species) * '' Duthiella'' (18 species) * '' Fa ...

, published by Swedish bryologist

Nils Conrad Kindberg Nils Conrad Kindberg (7 August 1832 in Karlstad – 23 August 1910 in Uppsala) was a Swedish bryologist. From 1849 he studied at Uppsala University, earning his PhD in 1857. In 1859 he worked as a teacher in Vänersborg, then from 1860 to 190 ...

in 1897. His son Harald was honored with the genus name ''

Lindbergella ''Lindbergella'' is a genus of plants in the grass family, found only on the Island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely ...

'' in the family

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

, published by Irish botanist

Norman Loftus Bor Norman Loftus Bor CIE OBE FRSE FLS FNI (2 May 1893 – 22 December 1972) was an Irish botanist. He was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society in 1962. Life Bor was born in Tramore, County Waterford in Ireland in 1893, the son ...

in 1969. Lindberg died at Helsingfors. He was the father of the botanist

Harald Lindberg Harald Lindberg (2 November 1871, Helsinki – 13 March 1963, Helsinki) was a Finnish botanist of Swedish parentage. He was the son of botanist Sextus Otto Lindberg (1835–1889). He studied natural sciences at the University of Helsinki, later s ...

(1871–1963).

Notes

External links

www.nad.riksarkivet.se ''S Otto Lindberg''.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindberg, Sextus Otto 1835 births 1889 deaths Swedish botanists 19th-century Swedish physicians Academic personnel of the University of Helsinki Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Bryologists