Peter Artedi
Swedish naturalist and father of ichthyology.
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Peter Artedi was a Swedish naturalist who greatly influenced ichthyology.[1] On the night of 27 September, while walking home from Seba's residence, Artedi fell into a canal and drowned; his body was discovered the following day.[2]
Life and work
Artedi began studying theology at Uppsala University in 1724 but turned to medicine and natural history.[1] In 1729 he formed a lasting friendship with Carl Linnaeus, who had arrived in Uppsala the previous year.[3] Artedi lost his Stipendium Regium and left Uppsala in 1732, possibly due to an association with alchemy.[3] Before parting, Artedi and Linnaeus agreed that if one died, the other would finish his work.[3]
Linnaeus introduced Artedi to Albertus Seba, who employed him to write fish descriptions.[2] After Artedi's death, Linnaeus published his manuscripts as Ichthyologia sive opera omnia de piscibus in 1738.[2] Artedi's father, Olaus Petri, studied at Åbo and later took over his own father's role as vicar in Nordmaling.[1]
What the cited sources add
A 2022 Zootaxa paper notes that Artedi's paternal grandfather Petrus Martini was a farmer's son who became a minister.[1] A 2020 Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society paper records that Professor Lars Roberg was censured for an alchemical thesis section in 1732.[3] That paper also notes that Artedi may have been affected by the censure due to his own interest in alchemy.[3] A 1987 conference paper states that Artedi mentioned seeing a whale in London in November 1734.[2]
According to the same source, the grandfather adopted the Latin surname Archtaedius.[1]
References
- Wikipedia, "Peter Artedi" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Pietsch, "Swedish naturalist Peter Artedi (1705–1735) and his place in the history of biosystematics as exemplified by his Ichthyologia sive opera omnia piscibus of 1738", Zootaxa, 2022, p. 589–598 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Peter Artedi" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; Wheeler, Alwyne, "Peter Artedi, founder of modern ichthyology", Proc. V. Congr. europ. Ichthyol., 1987, p. 3–10 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Peter Artedi" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Peter Artedi’s Catalogue of the fishes of the Baltic Sea: an English translation with an introduction and commentary", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2020, p. 975-997; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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