{{Short description|Swedish physician and botanist}} '''Sextus Otto Lindberg''' (29 March 1835 – 20 February 1889) was a Swedish physician and botanist, known as a bryologist.
==Life== He was born in Stockholm,<ref>''The Midland Naturalist'' vols. 11–12 (1888), p. 94; [https://archive.org/stream/midlandnaturali00socigoog#page/n443/mode/2up archive.org.]</ref> and educated in Uppsala.<ref>{{cite book|author=Arild Stubhaug|title=Gösta Mittag-Leffler: A Man of Conviction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b1v5nwU1avQC&pg=PA205|accessdate=24 June 2013|date=4 November 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-642-11672-8|page=205}}</ref> He worked in the Grand Duchy of Finland, then part of the Russian Empire. He became professor of botany, and dean of the physics-mathematics faculty, at the University of Helsingfors.<ref>{{cite book|author=Arild Stubhaug|title=Gösta Mittag-Leffler: A Man of Conviction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b1v5nwU1avQC&pg=PA240|accessdate=24 June 2013|date=4 November 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-642-11672-8|page=240}}</ref><ref name="Quattrocchi2006">{{cite book|author=Umberto Quattrocchi|title=CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology - 3 Volume Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ieqQs7hIREC&pg=PA1226|accessdate=24 June 2013|date=26 April 2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-4200-0322-2|page=1226}}</ref>
With Emil Frithiof Lackström he edited the exsiccata ''Hepaticae Scandinavicae exsiccata quarum specimina ediderunt S. O. Lindberg et E. Fr. Lackström'' (1874).<ref>{{cite web |title=Hepaticae Scandinavicae exsiccata quarum specimina ediderunt S. O. Lindberg et E. Fr. Lackström: IndExs ExsiccataID=499179904 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=499179904 |access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref>
He was honored with the genus name ''Lindbergia'' in the family Leskeaceae, published by Swedish bryologist Nils Conrad Kindberg in 1897. His son Harald was honored with the genus name ''Lindbergella'' (a synonym of ''Poa'') in the family Poaceae, published by Irish botanist Norman Bor in 1969. Between 1993 and 1997 Sinikka Piippo edited the exsiccata ''Hepaticae Exsiccatae S. O. Lindbergii'' with the serial specimens distributed by the Botanical Museum, University of Helsinki (now belonging to the Finnish Museum of Natural History).<ref>{{cite web |title=Hepaticae Exsiccatae S. O. Lindbergii: IndExs ExsiccataID=2031689343 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2031689343 |access-date=9 January 2025}}</ref>
Lindberg died at Helsingfors. He was the father of the botanist Harald Lindberg (1871–1963).<ref name="Quattrocchi2006"/>
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==External links== *{{in lang|sv}} [http://www.nad.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=10440 www.nad.riksarkivet.se ''S Otto Lindberg''.] *{{in lang|fi}} [https://archive.today/20130106145525/http://www.luomus.fi/kasvitiede/itiokasvit/tietoa/sammaltutkijat/s-o-lindberg.htm www.luomus.fi, ''Sextus Otto Lindberg''.]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindberg, Sextus Otto}} Category:1835 births Category:1889 deaths Category:19th-century Swedish botanists Category:19th-century Swedish medical doctors Category:Academic staff of the University of Helsinki Category:Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Category:Swedish bryologists Category:Medical doctors from Stockholm