Magnus Bromelius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish physician and mineralogist
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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Magnus Bromelius
- Magnus Bromelius, ennobled Von Bromell, born in Stockholm in 1679, died in 1731, was a Swedish physician and paleontologist.
- He was the son of the physician and botanist Olof Bromelius and Agnes Svinhufvud af Qvalstad. Bromelius became a doctor of medicine in 1703 in Reims, and was appointed a member of the Collegium medicum in 1705.
- At the same time he inherited a considerable fortune, which allowed him to devote his time to enlarge the collections of natural objects, coins and medals, he inherited from his father.
- He was appointed Professor of Anatomy in Stockholm in 1716, but soon left for a position at Collegium medicum, where he became president in 1724.
- He was elevated in 1726 to nobility. Bromelius wrote many papers in numismatics, medicine and science.
- Some of them are contained in the "Acta Literaria et Scientiarum Sveciæ", including "Introduction to essential knowledge to recognize and order all sorts of rocks, metals and fossils, etc." (1730).
- According to Elias Fries he was the first Swede to describe plant fossils.
- In Lithographia Suecana (1727) Bromelius discusses fossil trilobites, corals and shells from Gotland, graptolites, and plant fossils.
- The mineral bromellite was named in his honour.
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