> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 809](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190280) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8438-1) LSID 8438-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55071968) QID Q55071968 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Roberg, Lars \[Laurentius\] (1664-1742), Swedish botanist and physician; Dr. med. Leiden 1689; professor of medicine Uppsala 1697-1740 (predecessor of Linnaeus), director of the Uppsala botanical garden 1740-1742. **Abbreviated name**: *Roberg* \[standard form in IPNI: *Roberg*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown; see Löwegren (1952). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 496; Barnhart 3: 162; BM 4: 1711, 7: 1081-1082 (list dissertations); Dryander 3: 22, 524; KR p. 590-591 (b. 24 Jan 1664, d. 21 Apr 1742, bibl.); Moebius p. 242; PR 7658-7660, ed. 1: 8618-8626; Quenstedt p. 363; Rheder 5: 729; SO 64, 1333, 1334, 3093, 3597. #### Biofile - Anon., J. Bot. 61: 159. 1923 (reprint of his *Vegetabilium cum animalibus comparata* of 1737). - Blunt, W., The compleat naturalist 26, 28, 29, 30, 36. 1971. - Eriksson, G., Bot. hist. Sverige 362 \[index\]. 1969. - Fries, R.E., Short hist. bot. Sweden 18. 1950. - Fries, Th.M., Bref skrifv. Linné 1(2): 5, 7, 216. 1908, 1(6): 444. 1912, 1(7): 58. 1917. - Hulth, J.M., Bref skrifv. Linné 2(1): 337, 368, 372. 1916. - Lillingston, C., Brit. med. J. 4829: 201-202. 1953 (n.v.). - Lindman, S., Sv. män kvinn. 6: 301. 1949 (portr.), ("R. was unkempt and avaricious"). - Linnaeus, C., Lars Robergs tal, holne för publique promotioner, vid Upsala Academie, 1747. - Löwegren, Y., Naturaliekabinett i Sverige 168-172, 362, 405. 1952. - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 51. 1973. - Scheutz, N.J.W., Bot. Not. 1863: 71 (epon.). - Sernander, R., Sv. Linné-Sällsk. Årsskr. 11: 101-115. 1925 (portr.). - Stafleu, F.A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 6, 17. 1971. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 50. 1905. #### Composite works See SO 64, 1333, 1334, 3093, 3597. The *Dissertatio botanica de Planta Sceptrum carolinum*, 1731, defended by J.O. Rudbeck on 19 Jun 1731 under Roberg, is said by Th.M. Fries (Linné 1: 69. 1903) to have been based on a Linnaean manuscript. ("This thesis I compiled in one day at 30 crowns" Linnaeus on the ms.). See also SO 1334, 1335. #### Note Roberg's *Vegetabilium cum animalibus comparatio* 1737 was reprinted in facsimile 1923, by B.D. Jackson (privately printed). #### Eponymy *Roberga* Cothenius (1790, *orth., var.*); *Robergia* Schreber (1789).