> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 17](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066357) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11316-1) LSID 11316-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6228772) QID Q6228772 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wahlbom, Johan Gustav (1724-1808), Swedish botanist and physician; student of C. Linnaeus; Dr. med. Uppsala 1751; regional physician in Kalmar 1754-1794; appointed botanical demonstrator h.c. Stockholm 1794, but stayed in Kalmar. **Abbreviated name**: *Wahlbom* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wahlbom*\] #### Herbarium and types Lost, but some specimens in [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (Juel 1926, 1931); for zoological collections see Löwegren (1952). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 619; Barnhart 3: 449; BM 5: 2249, 8: 1383; KR p. 741 (b. 7 Jan 1724, d. 25 Jan 1808); PR 5444, ed. 1: 6025; Rehder 1: 198; SO 254, 1279, 1447, 1454\*, 1750, 2491a; TL-2/4738; Tucker 1: 727. #### Biofile - Burdet, H.M. et al., Ouvr. bot. anc. no. 517, 552. 1985. - Fries, Th.M., Linné 2: 75-77. 1903; Bref skrifv. Linné 1(1): 58, 207. 1907, 1(2): 172, 210, 356. 1908, 1(4): 66, 190, 202, 248. 1910, 1(5): 4, 224-226. 1911, 1(6): 280. 1912 (with J.M. Hulth), 1(7): 27, 33. 1917. - Juel, H.O., Sv. Linné-Sällsk. Årsskr. 9: 70. 1926, 14: 12-16. 1931 (42 specimens annotated by Linnaeus). - Löwegren, Y., Årsb. i sv. undervisningshist. 132: 95-97. 1944 (taught natural history at Kalmar High School); Naturaliekabinett Sverige 356, 369. 1952. - Palmblad, F.W., Biogr. Lexic. 19: 155-157. 1852. - Tigerstedt, R., *in* Nordisk Familjebok ed. 3. 19: 1283. 1933. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 57. 1905. #### Eponymy *Wahlbomia* Thunberg (1790). #### Composite works See C. Linnaeus, *Sponsalia plantarum* 1746, TL-2/4738. Krok attributes this thesis to J.G. Wahlbom. – Swedish translation: *Sponsalia plantarum*, eller blomstrens biläger,... Stockholm 1750; repr. in Skrift. C. v. Linné 4(1): 49-102. 1908 with plate and notes by Th.M. Fries. – Further copies seen of original: B, G, NY.