Travelled with the Swedish
East India Company to Surat in India in 1750 before travelling
on to Canton in China. He arranged to send a number of large
collections to Sweden, these are now at The Linnaen Society
of London.
BORN
1718, Sätila, Västergötland,
Sweden.
EDUCATION
Uppsala university, Sweden.
TRAVEL DIARY
The accounts of his travels
were published posthumously as a type of appendix to the published
works of Pehr Osbeck in 1757. En Ostindisk resa til Suratte,
China &c från 1750 April I. til Jun. 26 1752.
DIED
1753, (Näsinge churchyard)
Bohuslän, Sweden.
The map provides an overview of the places each
Apostle described in, for example, his travel diary, books or letters.
Modern geographical names are used. For further information see
the collected works, The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure.
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