Peter Jonas Bergius

Peter Jonas Bergius (1730 in Kronoberg, Sweden – 1790) was a Swedish medical doctor and botanist.[1]

Peter Jonas Bergius, 1847

In 1758 Bergius was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[1] In 1768 he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770 [3] and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1785.[4]

References
  1. "Peter Jonas Bergius". Bergius Botanical Garden. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  2. Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, 3:555–558.
  3. "Fellow Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  4. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  5. IPNI.  P.J.Bergius.
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