> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 350](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189821) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7877-1) LSID 7877-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q582183) QID Q582183 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Post, Ernst Jacob Lennart von (1884-1951), Swedish phytogeographer and geologist, one of the founders of pollen analysis and; Fil. lic. Uppsala 1904; State geologist 1910 (1914); Dr. h.c. Stockholm 1927; professor of geology at Stockholm 1929. **Abbreviated name**: *L. Post* \[standard form in IPNI: *L.Post*\] #### Herbarium and types None. – Letters at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 102 (b. 16 Jun 1884); BM 4: 1602, 8: 1024; Bossert p. 316 (d. 11 Jun 1951); Kew 4: 347; Kleppa p. 249; KR p. 576-577 (bibl. up to 1921); Nordstedt suppl. p. 13. #### Biofile - Caldenius, C., Sv. män och kvinnor 6: 166-167. 1949 (portr.). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 12. 1969. - Fries, M., Rev. Palaeobot. Palyn. 4: 9-13. 1967 (on the epoch-making lecture of 1916). - Fries, R.E., Short hist. bot. Sweden 75-76. 1950. - Grönwall, K.A., Sv. uppslagsbok ed. 2. 23: 171-172. 1952 (portr.). - Lundqvist, G., Sv. geogr. årsb. 27: 96-106 (obit., portr.). - Manten, A.A., Rev. Palaeobot. Palyn. 1: 11-22. 1967 (founder modern palynology). - Selling, O.H., Sv. bot. Tidskr. 45(1): 275-296. 1951 (obit., portr., bibl., b. 16 Jun 1884, d. 11 Jan 1951). - Straka, H., Umschau Wiss. Techn. 1966 (13): 426 (50th anniversary of pollenanalysis). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 28, 29, 273. 1936, 3: 25, 42. 1937, 4: 102, 121, 122. 1938, 5: 512. 1939, 6: 231. 1941. #### Festschrift Geologiska förenings i Stockholm Förhandlingar 66: 3. 1944 (portr.). #### Note For information on E.J.L. von Post we are grateful to O. Almborn, Lund. ### Publications ##### n.8188. Norrländiska torfmosse studier **Title** *Norrländiska torfmosse studier*... Stockholm (Kungl. Boktryckeriet. P. A. Norstedt & Söner) 2 parts, 1906-1910. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Norrl. torfmossestud.* **Notes** *1*: Mai 1906 (copy LD rd 24 Mai 1906), p. \[199\]-308, 3 maps. *Copy*: LD (inf. O. Almborn). – Issued as Geol. Fören. Stockholm Förh. 28(4), 1906 and as Medd. Ups. Univ. Mineral.-Geol. Inst. 30. *2*: Apr 1910, ib. 52(1): 63-90. 1930. ##### n.8189. Pflanzen-physiognomische Studien auf Torfmoosen **Title** *Pflanzen-physiognomische Studien auf Torfmoosen* in Närke... Excursion A7... \[Stockholm (P.A. Norstedt & Söner) 1910\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pfl.-physiogn. Stud. Torfm.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Johan Rutger Sernander (1866-1944). *Publ*.: 1910, p. \[i\], \[1\]-48, maps 1-5. *Copy*: U. – Publ. no. 14, Geologorum conventus 11, 1910, Suecia. ##### n.8189a. Skogsträdpollen i sydsvenska torvmosselagerföljder **Title** *Skogsträdpollen i sydsvenska torvmosselagerföljder*... Saertryk av Forh. ved 16. skand. naturforskermøte 1916 \[1918\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1918, p. \[433\]-465. *Copy*: LD (inf. O. Almborn). – Reprinted and to be cited from Forh. ved scand. Naturf. 16. Møte 1916: \[4331-465. 1918. – The classical paper in which von Post introduced "pollen statistics" (pollen analysis). *Reprint*: with introduction and translation by B. Davis, K. Faegri and Johs. Iversen, *in* Pollen et Spores 9(3): \[375\]-401. Dec 1967. ##### n.8189b. Einige Aufgaben der regionalen Moorforschung **Title** *Einige Aufgaben der regionalen Moorforschung*... Stockhom (Kungl. Boktryckeriet. P.A. Norstedt & Söner) 1926. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Aufg. region. Moorforsch.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar(?) 1926, p. \[1\]-41. *Copy*: LD (inf. O. Almborn). – Sv. geol. Unders. ser. C, Avh. o. upps. 337, Arsbok 19(4), 1925. ##### n.8189c. Pollenstatistika perspectiv på jordens klimathistoria **Title** *Pollenstatistika perspectiv på jordens klimathistoria*... Stockholm 1944. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1944, published in Ymer 64(2): \[79\]-113. 1944 (reprinted with original publication). – Honorary lecture delivered on 24 Apr 1944 to the Swedish Anthropological and Geographical Society, on the occasion of the receipt by von Post of the Vega Medal. *English translation*: *The prospect for pollen analysis* in the study of the earth's climatic history, New Phytologist 45(2): \[193\]-217. Dec 1946.