Sven Berggren, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Sven Berggren

Swedish botanist

Date of Birth: 12-Aug-1837

Date of Death: 28-Jun-1917

Profession: biologist, botanist, explorer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Sven Berggren (12 August 1837 – 28 June 1917) was a Swedish botanist, explorer and university professor.
He was a professor at Lund University 1883-1902, later at Uppsala University.
He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1880. He collected plants on a number of journeys to then little-known areas of the world, e.g.
Svalbard in 1868, Greenland in 1870 (both times with Nordenskiöld's expedition) and, in 1873, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii and California.
He made particularly novel collections and descriptions of bryophytes and to less extent vascular plants, algae and fungi. His collections are kept at Lund University.