iFACTS | Carl Fredrik Adler

Date of Birth	30 September, 1720.
Place of Birth	Näsby, Almby, Örebro [today], Sweden.
Date of Death	1761.
Place of Death	Java, Indonesia.
Monuments Medals Etc.	Unknown.
Variations of Name's Spelling	Carl Fridrich Adler, (in his ship’s doctor’s journal and in letters to Linnaeus).
Preserved signature	In correspondence.
Portrait	Unknown.
Childhood, Adolescence & Education	Father, military man Niclas Adler. Mother, Brita Adler (nee Geijer). Student, Uppsala University 15 February 1742. He studied medicine for Carl Linnaeus and Nils Rosén until his first East India voyage in January 1748. He continued his studies after the voyage – Autumn 1749 - Summer 1752. Adler defended a thesis for Linnaeus, 9 July 1752, Noctiluca marina.
Professional Life	Ship’s doctor, The Swedish East India Company.
Journeys & Voyages	1748-1749 Canton, The Swedish East India Company, the ship Hoppet. 1753-1756 Suratte and Canton, The Swedish East India Company, the ship Prins Carl. 1759-1760 Canton, The Swedish East India Company, the ship Prins Friedric Adolph. 1761 Canton, The Swedish East India Company, the ship Prins Friedric Adolph. (Adler’s voyages were financed with his employment as a ship’s doctor).!
Travel Diaries & Other Publications in Connection with the Journeys & Voyages	Thesis concerning observations during his voyages to China and Indonesia, with regards to the sea water’s phosphorus light. “Noctiluca marina” 9 July 1752. His ship’s doctor’s journal was published posthumously by Paul Hallberg & S. Bertil Olsson ed. (Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället) En ostindiefarande fältskärs berättelse – Carl Fredrik Adlers journal från skeppet Prins Carl 1753-56, Göteborg 2013.
Civil Status & Family	Married, Brita Christina Andersdotter Fahlbeck, January 1758, [probably] Göteborg.
Preserved Collections & Manuscripts	Manuscript; ‘Skeppsläkarjournal förd av Carl Fridrich Adler under Svenska Ostindiska Kompaniets resa med skeppet Prins Carl till Indien och Kina 1753-56.’ (Private ownership). Two herbarium samples, Linnaean Herbarium, Stockholm. Letter, The Linnean Society of London, Linnean Correspondence.
Extra Notes	He sent a number of natural-history specimens back to Sweden. New facts about Carl Fredrik Adler’s life have been clarified, with assistance of the publishing of his Ship’s Doctor’s Journal in 2013 (Hallberg, P. & Olsson S.B. ed., see above).
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