> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 323](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259827) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5737689) QID Q5737689 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Forssell, Nils Edvard (1821-1883), Swedish veterinarian and naturalist, born 31 Aug 1821 in Brandbo (Västmanland), visited Portugal and Brazil 1846-1847, veterinary dipl. 1847 Stockholm, adjunct at veterinary inst., Skara 1848, then "lector" 1856, "rector" 1858 and prof. regius 1880, dr. h.c. (medicine) Uppsala 1877, died 5 Jun 1883 in Karlsbad, Austrian Empire (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic). **Abbreviated name**: *N.E. Forssell* #### Note Father of Karl Bror Jacob Forssell (1856-1898) (see above). #### Herbarium and types Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco): [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection S|S]]-PA. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 559; BM 2: 595; CSP 2: 667; IH 2: 203; Kleppa p. 177; KR p. 194-195; SMK 2: 565 (portr.). #### Biofile - Carpenter, M.M., 1953. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 50: 286. - Sandahl, O.Th., 1883. Entomol. Tidskr. 4: 97-100 \[in Swedish\], 120-122 \[in French\]. - Urban, I., 1906. *In*, C. Martius, Fl. Bras. 1(1): 19-20. - Wittrock, V.B., 1903. Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 38; 1905. Id. 3(3): 12. #### Eponymy *Forsellia* Zahlbr. (1906) is dedicated to his son, Karl Bror Jakob Forssell (see above). ### Publications ##### n.35.088. Tabell **Title** *Tabell* öfver *Skandinaviens grässlägten* jemte *diagnoser* öfver arterna. En hjelpreda att på egen hand till slägten och arter bestämma *Sverges* och *Norges gramineer*... Skara (Petterssonska boktryckeriet) 1867. Fol. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1867, t.p., p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-7. *Copies*: BM, MO (n.v.).