iFACTS | Göran Rothman

Date of Birth	30 November 1739.
Place of Birth	Husebybruk, Småland, Sweden.
Date of Death	4 December 1778.
Place of Death	Stockholm, Sweden.
Monuments Medals Etc.	Unknown.
Variations of Name's Spelling	Yes, occasionally George as first name.
Preserved signature	In correspondence.
Portrait	Unknown.
Childhood, Adolescence & Education	Father, district medical officer and senior master Johan Stensson Rothman. Mother, Anna Elisabeth Rudebeck. School-attendance in Växjö (Cathedral school and gymnasium). Student, Uppsala University, signed in 30 November 1757. He studied medicine as well as natural history under Linnaeus. Bachelor of Philosophy 1760. Master of Philosophy 1761. Doctor of Medicine 1763.
Professional Life	Rothman moved to Stockholm after his degree - Doctor of Medicine - 1763, and practised as a physician. Parallel he got deeper into studying; physics, anatomy and obstetrics. Collegium medicum sent him - 28 August to 23 September 1766 to Åland (island between Sweden and Finland) - the reason was a fever of similar kind as malaria which raged the island. Rothman was seen as the most capable physician to find a cure for the illness. Secretary at the Collegium medicum from the years 1766-1773. Quarantine doctor in Stockholm archipelago 1770-1772. The first months after his return from the Tripolitanian journey 1776, Rothman primarily earned a living by smaller translation work. This was a side-line occupation he had had during his whole professional life; foremost in translating opera, drama and poetry. He was appointed assessor in Collegium medicum on the 10 December 1776, without salary.
Journeys & Voyages	Rothman worked in Tunisia and Libya from 1773 to 1776 for The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Circumstances prevented his work from being as comprehensive as hoped. The journey started from Stockholm 8 August 1773 by land via Helsingborg, ship to Helsingör and Copenhagen, he returned to Helsingör where the ship sailed towards Kattegat, Skagerrak, The North Sea, The English Channel, through Gibraltar Straits to Tunis. The journey continued later towards Tripoli, excursions by land and smaller boat trips was accomplished in the area. The return journey started 23 April 1776 and he arrived back in Stockholm 19 July the same year. (The journey was financed by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with 2.000 daler koppar mynt [rix-dollar copper coin] and scientific instruments as thermometers, microscopes etc. There was still a lack of money for Rothman, so he had to ask the Academy for additional funds, to have the possibility to travel home. He received further more 1.200 d. kmt. at his return home to cover expenses from the journey).
Travel Diaries & Other Publications in Connection with the Journeys & Voyages	The diary; ‘Resa till Tripoli år 1773 af G. Rothman’. (First published in an English translation ‘Journey to Tripoli in 1773 to 1776 by Göran Rothman’ in 2009 for The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure Vol. 4). Letters from Göran Rothman to the secretary Pehr Wargentin at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm; dated from December 1773 to 20 August 1776. (These letters were published together with the above mentioned diary in 2009 for The Linnaeus Apostles Global Science & Adventure Vol. 4).
Civil Status & Family	Unmarried.
Preserved Collections & Manuscripts	His diary ‘Resa till Tripoli år 1773-1776’ and letters to the secretary Pehr Wargentin; The Royal Academy of Sciences, Bergius Collection, Stockholm. The manuscripts are today deposited in the Stockholm University Library. Herbarium plants collected during the Tripolitanian journey, some of them are added with Rothman’s name, notes and observations; the Bergius Herbarium and The Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, Thunberg Herbarium in Uppsala and Botanical Museum in Helsinki.
Extra Notes	Göran Rothman’s father Johan Stensson Rothman, was a teacher and mentor to the young Carl Linnaeus at Växjö Cathedral school. Carl Peter Thunberg named a plant sent home from Cape after Rothman, as Rothmannia capensis Thunb., sometimes called Wild Gardenia or Candle-wood.
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