Thore Christian Elias Fries (3 November 1886 – 31 December 1930 son of

Theodor Magnus Fries Theodor "Thore" Magnus Fries (28 October 1832 – 29 March 1913), was a Sweden, Swedish botanist, lichenologist, and Arctic explorer. The son of the renowned mycologist Elias Magnus Fries, he served as a professor of botany and applied economic ...

and brother of

Robert Elias Fries (Klas) Robert Elias Fries (11 July 1876, Uppsala – 29 January 1966, Stockholm), the youngest son of Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913) and grandson of Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878) and an expert on mushrooms. A Swedish botanist who was a m ...

) was Professor of Systematic Botany at

Lund University Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially foun ...

. He specialised in

lichenology Lichenology is the branch of mycology that studies the lichens, symbiotic organisms made up of an intimate symbiotic association of a microscopic alga (or a cyanobacterium) with a Hypha, filamentous fungus. Lichens are chiefly characterized by th ...

and

plant geography Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution o ...

. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation T.C.E.Fr. when

citing A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose o ...

botanical name A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or cultivar group, Group epithets must conform t ...

. He did his field work and travelled in

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

and

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

He was a member of the

British Mycological Society The British Mycological Society is a learned society established in 1896 to promote the study of fungi. Formation The British Mycological Society (BMS) was formed by the combined efforts of two local societies: the Woolhope Naturalists' Fiel ...

and associated with many botanical gardens and other museums.

References

Systematic Botany – History
at www.systbot.uu.se *http://www.systbot.uu.se/information/history/fries.

External links

* Botanists with author abbreviations 1886 births 1930 deaths Fries, Robert Elias Fries, Robert Elias 20th-century Swedish botanists Burials at Uppsala old cemetery {{Sweden-botanist-stub