> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 926](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190397) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8648-1) LSID 8648-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365301) QID Q365301 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rothman, Johan Stensson (1684-1763), Swedish physician; high school teacher and botanist; studied at Uppsala; Dr. med. Harderwijk (Netherlands) 1713; regional physician Kronoberg County, S. Sweden from 1714, in addition teacher of logic and physics at Växjö grammar school (with e.g. C. Linnaeus as pupil) 1719-1751; assessor (member of Collegium medicum) 1722. (blind from 1749). **Abbreviated name**: *J. Rothman* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Rothman*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. For his natural history cabinet see Löwegren (1952). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 183; Dryander 3: 351; KR p. 603 (b. 24 Feb 1684, d. 20 Jul 1763; lists one bot. publ.); LS 22968-22968a; SO 906. #### Biofile - Anon., Biogr. lexic. namnk. sv. man 12: 269-270. 1846 ("without him Linnaeus would have become a poor priest at Stenbrohult"). - Blunt, W., The compleat naturalist 18, 21, 25, 26, 86, 141. 1971 (relationship with Linnaeus). - Fries, Th.M., Linné 1: 15-36. 1903; Bref och skrifv. Linné 1(2): 25-27. 1908, 1(4): 9. 1910. - Hedlund, E., Sv. Linné-Sälssk. Årsskr. 19: 67-200. 1936 (detailed biogr.; handwriting). - Lindman, S., Sv. man kvinn. 6: 373. 1949. - Löwegren, I., Naturaliekabinett Sverige 226, 227, 363. 1952 (non-botanical coll.; biogr. refs.). - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 50, 51. 1973. - Scheutz, N.J.W., Bot. Not. 1863: 71 (epon.). - Stearn, W., *in* C. Linnaeus, Sp. pl., facs. ed. 1957, p. 1: 7-9, 13, 24. 1957. #### Note (by O. Almborn): Rothman taught Linnaeus about the system (Tournefort) and the sexuality of plants (Vaillant).