# Johan Linder

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'''Johans Linder''' (1678 - March 24, 1724) was a Swedish botanist and medical doctor who was later [ennobled](/source/Ennoblement) as Lindestolpe.<ref name="JotKAoS">{{cite journal |last1=Durtsche|first1=Richard D.| last2= Thieret| first2= John W.|title=Johan Linder (Lindestolpe) (1676-1724), Eponym of the Generic Name Linder a Thunberg (Plantae: Lauraceae) |journal=Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science |date=2005 |volume=v.66:no.1 (2005:Spring) |page=44-47 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175711#page/46/mode/1up |access-date=3 March 2024 |publisher=The Academy|doi=10.3101/1098-7096(2005)66[44:JLLEOT]2.0.CO;2 }}</ref> He wrote a book about natural dyes and their sources including plants, insects, 
and minerals.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-s0DAAAQBAJ&dq=johans+linder&pg=PA168 | title=Silk and Tea in the North: Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe | isbn=9781137455444 | last1=Hodacs | first1=Hanna | date=17 May 2016 | publisher=Springer }}</ref>

He was born 1678 in [Karlstad](/source/Karlstad), Sweden and went to university in [Uppsala](/source/Uppsala) with his first thesis titled ''De pomis hesperidum'' ("On the Apple of the Hesperides") in 1702.<ref name="JotKAoS" /> He defended a second thesis in 1705 titled ''De Foeda lue venerea dicta'' translated in 1713 into Swedish as ''Tankar om then smittosamma sjukom franzoser'' ("Thoughts about the very infectious French disease syphilis").<ref name="JotKAoS" /> He encouraged other doctors to aid those inflicted with [syphilis](/source/syphilis), rather than embarrass them with "moral preaching", although at the time there was little they could do to help.<ref name="Tord">{{cite book |last1=Ajanki |first1=Tord |title=Medicinal Reading: Of genius, pure chance and dedicated hard work |date=1 June 1995 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-91-86274-61-0 |pages=150,152,162-163 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IItczvMCtCQC&dq=johan+linder&pg=PA152 |access-date=7 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref>

He was appointed a member of the Medical College in 1719 the same year he was ennobled as Lindestolpe.<ref name="JotKAoS" />

The genus ''[Lindera](/source/Lindera)'', spicebush, is named for him, dedicated to him by [Carl Peter Thunberg](/source/Carl_Peter_Thunberg) in 1783.<ref name="JotKAoS" /><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M6zWDwAAQBAJ&dq=johans+linder&pg=PT381 | title=The Etymology of Chemical Names: Tradition and Convenience vs. Rationality in Chemical Nomenclature | date=8 October 2019 | publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG | isbn=9783110611243 }}</ref>

Linder married twice, first to Anna Öhrner and then to Eva Christina Cronhielm in 1720.<ref name="JotKAoS" />
He died March 24, 1724 in [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm).<ref name="JotKAoS" />

== Books ==
* ''De Venenis In Genere, & in Specie Exercitatio'', published in 1708 under the name Johannis Linder.<ref>{{cite web |title=De Venenis In Genere, & in Specie Exercitatio {{!}} Dickinson College |url=https://archives.dickinson.edu/norris-books/de-venenis-genere-specie-exercitatio |website=archives.dickinson.edu |access-date=7 April 2024}}</ref>
* ''Flora Wiksbergensis'' which was the forth book to be published on Swedish flora.<ref name="JotKAoS" /> It was first published in 1716 under the name Johan Linders.<ref name="JotKAoS" />
* ''Liber De Venenis : In Ordinem Redactus Corollariis Animadversionibus Et Indice Illustratus'' 1739 under the name Lindestolpe Med. Doct.<ref>{{cite web |title='Jo. Lindestolpe Med. Doct. Liber De Venenis : In Ordinem Redactus Corollariis Animadversionibus Et Indice Illustratus' - Details {{!}} MDZ |url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/details/bsb10287497 |website=www.digitale-sammlungen.de |access-date=7 April 2024}}</ref>
 
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