Anders Sparrman
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Swedish naturalist
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- Doctorate Medicine Uppsala University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Anders Sparrman was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Biography Sparrman was the son of a clergyman. At the age of nine he enrolled at Uppsala University, beginning medical studies at fourteen and becoming one of the outstanding pupils of Linnaeus. In 1765 he went on a voyage to China as ship's doctor, returning two years later and describing the animals and plants he had encountered. On this voyage he met Carl Gustaf Ekeberg.
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