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### 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.