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### Author
Pontén, Johan (Jon) Peter (1776-1857), Swedish botanist, physician and clergyman; Dr. phil. Greifswald 1800, ordained 1801, parish priest at Hultsjö from 1826, at Korsberga from 1837.
**Abbreviated name**: *Pontén* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pontén*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection UPS|UPS]] (see Löwegren 1952).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 98; BM 4: 1595; CSP 4: 984; Herder p. 141; KR p. 574-575 (b. 2 Mai 1779 (sic, misprint for 1776), d. 23 Sep 1857); MW p. 391; PR 7267, 9292; Rehder 1: 33.
#### Biofile
- Lindman, S., Svenska män och kvinnor 6: 150. 1949 (portr.).
- Löwegren, Y., Naturaliekab. Sverige 361. 1952 (herb. of 4000 phanerogams at UPS).
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 48. 1905 (b. 2 Mai 1776, d. 23 Sep 1857).
#### Composite works
Defended C.P. Thunberg *Dissertatio botanica de Hydrocotyle* 1798, (also in Thunberg, Diss. Acad. 2: 410-418. 1800), see under Thunberg.
### Publications
##### n.8154. de serie vegetabili
**Title**
Dissertatio philosophico-botanica *de serie vegetabili*, quam venia ampliss. facult. philos. gryph.... pro gradu philosophico proposuit auctor Johannes Petr. Pontén, smolandia-suecus, in aud. maj. die xviii sept mdccc. h.a.m.s. Gryphiae \[Greifswald\] (litteris I.H. Eckhardt,...) \[1800\]. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Ser. veg.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 18 Sep 1800, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-14. *Copy*: Lund University Library (inf. O. Almborn).