Joined a Danish expedition
to Arabia in 1761. Died in Yemen in 1763. Forsskål was the first
person to describe the unusual plant and animal life of the
Red Sea. The German scientist Carsten Niebuhr, the only surviving
member of the expedition, saved the greater part of the expedition's
collection and took it back to Denmark.
BORN
1732, Helsingfors, Finland.
EDUCATION
Uppsala university, Sweden
and Göttingen university, (present) Germany
TRAVEL DIARY
The results of the expedition
were first published in the 1770s and have been frequently republished
ever since. Den Arabiske Rejse 1761-1767. En dansk ekspedition
set i videnskapbshistorisk perspektiv, ed. Stig T. Rasmussen
1992.
DIED
1763, Jerim, Jemen
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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