Georg (Göran) Wahlenberg (Kroppa, Värmland County 1 October 1780 – Uppsala 22 March 1851) was a Swedish naturalist. Värmland County, or Värmlands län, is a County or län in eastern middle Sweden. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). ... 1780 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the modern city of Uppsala. ... March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). ... Events January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. ... -1...

Wahlenberg matriculated at Uppsala University in 1792, received his doctorate in Medicine in 1806, was appointed botanices demonstrator in 1814, and professor of medicine and botany in 1829, succeeding Carl Peter Thunberg. He was the last holder of the undivided chair that in the previous century had been held by Linnaeus. After his death in 1851, the chair was divided into more delimited professorships, and botany became the main duty of the borgströmian professorship, at the time held by Elias Fries. Uppsala University Uppsala University (Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Carl Peter Thunberg (November 11, 1743 _ August 8, 1828) was a Swedish naturalist. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné  listen, and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish scientist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... Events January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. ... Drawn image of Elias Magnus Fries Elias Magnus Fries (August 15, 1794 - February 8, 1878) was a Swedish botanist born at Femsjö in Smalandia. ...

Wahlenberg made his main work in the field of plant geography and published, among other things the Flora lapponica (1812) and other works on the plant world of northernmost Sweden. 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

The harebell family of Wahlenbergia was named after him. The standard botanical author abbreviation Wahlenb. is applied to species he described. In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... In biology, a species is a kind of organism. ...