Johan Linder

Johans Linder (1678 - March 24, 1724) was a Swedish botanist and medical doctor who was later ennobled as Lindestolpe.^[1] He wrote a book about natural dyes and their sources including plants, insects, and minerals.^[2]

He was born 1678 in Karlstad, Sweden and went to university in Uppsala with his first thesis titled De pomis hesperidum ("On the Apple of the Hesperides") in 1702.^[1] He defended a second thesis in 1705 titled De Foeda lue venerea dicta translated in 1713 into Swedish as Tankar om then smittosamma sjukom franzoser ("Thoughts about the very infectious French disease syphilis").^[1] He encouraged other doctors to aid those inflicted with syphilis, rather than embarrass them with "moral preaching", although at the time there was little they could do to help.^[3]

He was appointed a member of the Medical College in 1719 the same year he was ennobled as Lindestolpe.^[1]

The genus Lindera, spicebush, is named for him, dedicated to him by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1783.^[1][4]

Linder married twice, first to Anna Öhrner and then to Eva Christina Cronhielm in 1720.^[1] He died March 24, 1724 in Stockholm.^[1]

Books

• De Venenis In Genere, & in Specie Exercitatio, published in 1708 under the name Johannis Linder.^[5]
• Flora Wiksbergensis which was the forth book to be published on Swedish flora.^[1] It was first published in 1716 under the name Johan Linders.^[1]
• Liber De Venenis : In Ordinem Redactus Corollariis Animadversionibus Et Indice Illustratus 1739 under the name Lindestolpe Med. Doct.^[6]