> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 14](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264761) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/50-1) LSID 50-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365923) QID Q365923 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Acharius, Erik|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Acharius, Erik (1757-1819), Swedish lichenologist, born at Gävle, studied in Uppsala 1773-1776, Dr. phil. with Linnaeus 1776; Dr. med. Lund 1782, ultimately provincial medical officer and, from 1795, chief physician at the Vadstena hospital; member Swedish Academy of Sciences 1796; honorary professor's title 1803, Vasa order 1809. **Abbreviated name**: *Achar.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ach.*\] #### Herbarium and types Lichens and some algae at [[Collection H|H]] ([[Collection H|H]]-ACH), phan. and other crypt. at [[Collection LD|LD]], some types in [[Collection BM|BM]] (set of duplicates originally given to [[Collection LINN|LINN]]), – some further material at [[Collection PH|PH]] (through Muhlenberg) and [[Collection B|B]] (through herb. Laurer, [[Collection C|C]] (50 Lich.), [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection M|M]] and [[Collection UPS|UPS]]. – Note: I. Kukkonen (in lit. 9 Jun 1978) informed us that the Helsinki Acharius collections were bought by [[Collection H|H]] from Billberg in 1834. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 94, 96, 312, 313; Barnhart 1: 9 (b. 10 Oct 1757, d. 14 Aug 1819); BM 1: 8; Bossert p. 2; CSP 1: 9-10; Dawson p. 7; Dryander 3: 160, 336, 343; DSB 1: 45-46 (G. Eriksson); DTS 1: 1; Frank 3(Anh.): 3; GR p. 469, *pl*. \[*2*\]; IF p. 675; IH 1 (ed. 6): 335, 2: 26; Kew 1: 5; KR p. 2-4 (main bibl.); Lasègue p. 27, 320, 324, 344, 359, 545; LS 657-678; Moebius p. 108, 110, 112; MW p. 1; NI 1; PR 8-11, ed. 1: 24-27; Rehder 5(index): 4; RS p. 71; TL-1: 1; TL-2/1: 4-5; other refs. 7247, 9153, see C.H. Persoon, A.J. Retzius, J. Smith, K.P.J. Sprengel; Tucker 1: 28. #### Biofile - Almborn, O., Bot. Not. 133: 453, 454. 1980. - Anon., Flora 2(1): 252. 1819 ("... die Klage so vieler Botaniker über die vielen von Acharius auf unwesentliche Merkmale gegründeten Gattungen"), 2(2): 550. 1819 (d. 14 Aug 1819, Apoplexy, leaves a herbarium of 14.000 species (sic) will be sold); Biogr. lexicon namnkunn svenska män 1: 3-8. 1835; Bot. Zeit. 10: 742. 1852; Int. lichenol. Newsletter 11(2): \[s.n.\]. 1878 (drawing of Acharius; comm. 175-th anniv. Methodus); Rev. bryol. lichénol. 34(1-2): 377. 1966 (collection of A. at LINN sold to BM). - Baillon, H.E., Dict. bot. 1: 27. 1876 (not quite correct). - Berzelius, J.J., Kongl. Sv. Vetenskaps Akad. Handl. ser. 2. 7: 299-305. 1819, German transl. by A. von Krempelhuber, Flora 51: 101-107. 1868. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. resources Brit. Isl. 379. 1980. - Candolle, A.P. de, Mém. souvenirs 141. 1862. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 391. 1880 (herb.). - Coemans, H.E.L.G., Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg. 34: 32-49. 1865. - Collander, R., Hist. bot. Finland 24, 28, 33, 102. 1965. - Darlington, W., Reliq. Baldwin 40, 43, 99. 1843. - Eriksson, G., Bot. hist. Sverige 357\[index\]. 1969; DSB 1: 45-46. 1970. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 89, 90. 1969. - Fries, R.E., Short hist. bot. Sweden 52-53, frontisp. portr., 1950 (brief biogr. sketch). - Fries, Th.M., Bref skrifv. Linné 1(5): 236. 1911. - Galloway, D.J., *in* A. Wheeler and J.H. Price, eds., History in the service of systematics 119-127. 1981 (A. and the evolution of generic concepts in lichenology); Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Bot.) 18(2): 149-194. 1988. - Gilbert, P., Compendium biogr. lit. deceased entomologists 2. 1977. - Grummann, V., Cat. Lich. Germ. 59. 1963 (223 species of lichens descr. by A., 168 infraspecific taxa). - Gyelnik, V.K., Ann. Hist.-nat. Mus. natl. Hung., Bot. 31: 54. 1938 (on A. coll.). - Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 16: 339. 1980 (some lichens from A. in M via Nägeli, ex Schaerer). - Högrell, B., Bot. Hist. 1: 223. 1886. - Ilg, W., Hoppea 42: 264. 1984. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 374. 1884. - Koster, J.Th., Taxon 18: 549. 1969 (type collections of algae at H, sic.). - Krempelhuber, A. von, Gesch. Lit. Lichenologie 1: 96-98, 112-114, 194-196. 1867, 2: 54-56, 61-69, 79- 88. 1869 (on lichen systems). - Le Turquier de Longchamp, J.A., Concord. fig. crypt. Dillen 1820 (contains a comparison of the figures of cryptogams of A. with figures of other cryptogamists, see TL-2/4455). - Löwegren, Y., Naturaliekabinett i Sverige 233, 336. 1952 (on colls., further refs.). - Lundmark, F., Sv. Läkartidn. 49(18): 1149-1173. 1952. - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 169, 281. 1973. - Mears, D.A., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 122(3): 169-170. 1978 (on A. material in H. Muhlenberg herb. at PH). - Müller Arg., J., Graphideae feeanae, Genève 1887 (contains notes on Graphideae of A.). - Nordenskjöld, E., Hist. of biol. 440. 1935. - Prescott, G.W., Bibl. Desmid. Univ. 5. 1984 (cites *Echinella* Acharius (Desmid.) in Beitr. Naturk. 2: 340-342, *pl. 4.* 1810, (KR no. 16)). - Roumeguère, C., Bull. Soc. bot. France 19: xxii-xlvii. 1872 (correspondence between A. and P.P. de Lapeyrouse). - Scheutz, N.J.W., Bot. Not. 1863: 66. - Sernander, R., Sv. biogr. lexik. 1: 38-40. 1918 (biogr., bibl.). - Vitikainen, O., *in* E. Acharius, Lichenogr. universalis, reprint Richmond 1976, 6 p. (q.v. for a list of literature on A's herbarium and material). - Wikström, J.E., Conspectus 3-8. 1831. - Wit, H.C.D. de, Ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis van de biologie 2: 1006, 1016. 1989. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 26. 1903, 3(3): lxvii, 1, *pl. 37.* 1905 (portr.). #### Correspondence Uppsala; other letters at KVA, Stockholm. #### Composite works - (1) Acharius gave assistance for cryptogams to J.H. Wallman, the editor of S. Liljeblad, Utkast Sv. Fl. ed. 3. 1816, from 257 on, see TL-2/4528. ### Publications ##### n.18.824. Mémoire sur les lichens Calicoïdes **Title** *Mémoire sur les lichens Calicoïdes*. Première partie. Description des genres Limboria et Cyphelium... Caen (De l'imprimerie de T. Chalopin,...) 1827. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Mém. Calicoïdes*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1827, p. \[i, iii\], \[1\]-54, *pl. 1* (uncol. lith. Mautras). *Copy*: G. – French version of KR 22, Styck 1: *Beskrifning* på tvenne nya Slägten: *Limboria* och *Cyphelium*, K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1815: 246-271, *pl. 6a.*