> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 163](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258641) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123682375) QID Q123682375 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Gedner, Christophor \[Eliasson\] (1729-1773), Swedish student of Linnaeus, born 24 Jul 1729 in Vittinge, Uppland, at Uppsala Univ. 1743, in Berlin 1755, died 3 Mai 1773 in Karlstad. **Abbreviated name**: *Gedner* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 35; BM 2: 647; Dryander 5: 247 (index); KR p. 237; SO p. 23 (index); TL-2/3: 948 (index). #### Note Gedner was respondant for the thesis *Cui bono?*... \[i.e. "To what purpose?" on the utility of natural history...\] \[1752\] (see TL-2/3, nr. 4766), which has a more involved history than earlier given. The earlier entry can be augmented as follows: *Publ*.: 21 Oct 1752, p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-29, \[30\]. *Copies*: B, BM, HH, K, LC (as Dissertationes academicae (Linné) no. 42) (n.v.), MO. *Microfilm*: London (British Library), 1993, 1 reel (220 fr., 35 mm). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Reprinted* \[Sep 1756\]... *Amoen. Acad.* 3(4): 231-255 (TL-2/1, nr. 4753). \[1762\]: Of the *use of curiosity*... *in* B. Stillingfleet, *Misc. tracts*... ed. 2, p. \[159\]-200 (TL-2/6, nr. 13.112). *Copies*: G, KU, MO, NY, US (n.v.). \[1764\]:... *Amoen. Acad.*, ed. 2. \[Amsterdam ed.?\]. (TL-2/1, nr. 4753). \[1775\]: *in* B. Stillingfleet, *Misc. tracts*... ed. 3, p. \[159\]-200 (TL-2/6, nr. 13.112). *Copies*: HH, KU, NYPL (n.v.), PH. \[1786\]: *in* J.E. Gilibert, *Syst. pl. Eur.*... vol. 5 (TL-2/1, nr. 2014). \[1787\]:... *Amoen. Acad., Schreb. ed.* 3(4): 231-255. \[1791\]: Of the *use of curiosity*... *in* B. Stillingfleet, *Misc. tracts*... ed. 4, p. \[159\]-200 (TL-2/6, nr. 13.112). *Copies*: MO, NY. Reprint \[1977\]:... New York (Arno Press)... *Copy*: (n.v.). *Swedish transl*.: En Fråga, som altid föreställes de naturkunniga, Då det heter: *Hwartil duger det?* (Cui bono?). Först framstäld och beswarad i en disputation på Latin, under... Carl Linnæi Öfwerwaro, den 21 Octob. år 1752. Men nu, efter hög Befalning, på Moders-målet öfwersatt af Christopher El. Gedner... Stockholm (Tryckt på Lars Salvii kostnad) 1753. Qu. *Publ*.: 1753, p. \[1\]-32. *Copy*: BM. *Ref*.: SO nr. 1691. - *French transl*.: *A quoi cela sert-il? In*, L'équilibre de la nature... transl. by Bernard Jasmin; introd. & annotations by Camille Limoges... 1995 \[Reproduced from the 1972 (sic) ed.\]. *Copy*: (n.v.).