# Hugo Leander Blomquist

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{{short description|Swedish bryologist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
|name              =Hugo Leander Blomquist
|image             =File:HugoBlomquist.jpg
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|caption           =Hugo L. Blomquist
|birth_date        = June 5, 1888
|birth_place       = [Sorsele](/source/Sorsele), [Sweden](/source/Sweden)
|death_date        = {{death date and age text|November 28, 1964|June 5, 1885}}
|death_place       = [Durham, North Carolina](/source/Durham%2C_North_Carolina)
|residence  = |citizenship = [United States](/source/United_States)
|ethnicity         = 
|field             = [Botany](/source/Botany)
|work_institutions = [Duke University](/source/Duke_University)
|alma_mater        = [University of Chicago](/source/University_of_Chicago)
|doctoral_advisor  = [William Jesse Goad Land](/source/William_Jesse_Goad_Land)
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|known_for         =
|author_abbrev_bot = H.L.Blomq.
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'''Hugo Leander Blomquist''' (June 5, 1888 – November 28, 1964) was a [Swedish](/source/Sweden)-born American [botanist](/source/botanist). His well rounded expertise encompassed fungi, bacteria, bryophytes, algae, grasses, and ferns. {{Botanist|H.L.Blomq.|inline=yes}}

==Early life==
Although several sources state his birth year as 1885, Blomquist was actually born in 1888 in [Sorsele](/source/Sorsele), [Sweden](/source/Sweden).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0034404_00089#?c=&m=&s=&cv=88&xywh=-140%2C1221%2C5186%2C3359|title=Sorsele kyrkoarkiv, Husförhörslängder, SE/HLA/1010185/A I/12 (1886-1895)|website=sok.riksarkivet.se}}</ref> In 1892, his family emigrated to [Kulm, North Dakota](/source/Kulm%2C_North_Dakota). He earned his [B.S.](/source/B.S.) in botany from the [University of Chicago](/source/University_of_Chicago) in 1916.<ref>[Durden, Robert Franklin](/source/Durden%2C_Robert_Franklin). The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949. Duke University Press, 1993.</ref> He enrolled in graduate school, but his studies were interrupted by [World War I](/source/World_War_I). From 1917 to 1919, Blomquist served as a musician first class in the [U.S. Army](/source/U.S._Army). After the war, he briefly studied at [Pasteur Institute](/source/Pasteur_Institute) before finishing his [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) at the University of Chicago. He completed his doctorate in botany under [William Jesse Goad Land](/source/William_Jesse_Goad_Land) in 1921.<ref name="jstor">{{Cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Lewis E. |date=1965 |title=In Memoriam: Hugo Leander Blomquist, 1885-1964 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3241029 |journal=The Bryologist |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=251–254 |issn=0007-2745}}</ref>

==Career==
Blomquist was hired as Assistant Professor of Biology at Trinity College, now [Duke University](/source/Duke_University), after his graduation in 1921. He was promoted to full professorship two years later, and in 1935, he became Chairman of Botany. Although retired in 1953, he remained as an [emeritus](/source/emeritus) professor. He was active in his field until a few years before his death.<ref name=jstor/> Blomquist started the [herbarium](/source/herbarium) at Duke after arranging the purchase of the collections of [P. O. Schallert](/source/Paul_Otto_Schallert).<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Duke Herbarium |url=https://herbarium.duke.edu/about/history |website=herbarium.duke.edu |access-date=18 February 2024}}</ref>

Throughout his career, Blomquist had a leading role in many botanical societies. He served as chairman of the Southeastern Section of the [Botanical Society of America](/source/Botanical_Society_of_America), president of the [American Fern Society](/source/American_Fern_Society), president of the [American Bryological and Lichenological Society](/source/American_Bryological_and_Lichenological_Society), president of the [Southern Appalachian Botanical Society](/source/Southern_Appalachian_Botanical_Society), president of the [North Carolina Academy of Science](/source/North_Carolina_Academy_of_Science), and president/founding member of the [Association of Southeastern Biologists](/source/Association_of_Southeastern_Biologists). He was also a fellow of the [American Association for the Advancement of Science](/source/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science) and a member of several other groups.<ref name=jstor/>

==Legacy==
About 3,500 of Blomquist's specimens are cataloged by the [University of North Carolina](/source/University_of_North_Carolina) Herbarium, and the Duke University Herbarium holds about 10,000 of his specimens. The H.L. Blomquist Garden of Southeastern Native Plants, part of the [Sarah P. Duke Gardens](/source/Sarah_P._Duke_Gardens) at Duke University, is named for him.<ref>{{cite web |title=Collectors of the UNC Herbarium - Hugo Leander Blomquist |url=http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/Collectors/Blomquist_Hugo.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224142533/http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/Collectors/Blomquist_Hugo.htm |archive-date=2013-02-24 |website=herbarium.unc.edu}}</ref>

The Hugo L. Blomquist Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience is a distinguished professorship at Duke University.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scholars.duke.edu/display/professorship100310287|title=Hugo L. Blomquist Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences - Scholars@Duke|website=scholars.duke.edu|access-date=January 22, 2019|archive-date=February 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212201107/https://scholars.duke.edu/display/professorship100310287|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
*Blomquist, H.L. (1931)  Genetics of mosses.  Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 46:  267-275. {{JSTOR|24332345}}
*Blomquist, H.L. (1934) [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001497073 Ferns of North Carolina].  Durham, North Carolina:  Duke University Press. [with an introduction by [Donald C. Peattie](/source/Donald_C._Peattie)].<ref name="WherryBlomquist1935">{{cite journal|last1=Wherry|first1=Edgar T.|author-link=Edgar T. Wherry|title=Review of ''Ferns of North Carolina'' by H. L. Blomquist|journal=American Fern Journal|volume=25|issue=2|year=1935|page=59|issn=0002-8444|doi=10.2307/1544013|jstor=1544013}}</ref>
*Blomquist, H.L. (1938)  Peat mosses of the southeastern States.  Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc.  54:  1-21.
*Blomquist, H.L. (1939)  Grasses new to North Carolina.  Castanea 4 (4/5):  50-55. {{JSTOR|4031143}}
*[Williams, Louis G.](/source/Louis_G._Williams) and H.L. Blomquist (1947)  A collection of marine algae from Brazil.  Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 74(5):  383-397. {{doi|10.2307/2482061}}
*Blomquist, H.L. (1948)  The grasses of North Carolina.  Durham, North Carolina:  Duke University Press.<ref name="Chase1949">{{cite journal|last1=Chase|first1=Agnes|author-link=Mary Agnes Chase|title=Review of ''The Grasses of North Carolina'' by H. L. Blomquist|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=24|issue=4|year=1949|page=360|issn=0033-5770|doi=10.1086/397250}}</ref>
*Greene, Wilhelmina F. and Hugo L. Blomquist (1953)  Flowers of the South, Native and Exotic.  Chapel Hill North Carolina:  University of North Carolina Press.<ref name="Conger1954">{{cite journal|last1=Conger|first1=Alan D.|title=Review of ''Flowers of the South, Native and Exotic'' by Wilhelmina F. Greene, Hugo L. Blomquist|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=29|issue=2|year=1954|page=163|issn=0033-5770|doi=10.1086/400122}}</ref>

==References==
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