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Adam Afzelius
Adam Afzelius
(8 October 1750 – 20 January 1837) was a
Swedish
botanist
and an
apostle of Carl Linnaeus
. Afzelius was born at
Larv
in
Västergötland
in 1750. He was appointed teacher of
oriental languages
at
Uppsala University
in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of
botany
. In 1793, he was elected a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
.
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