37 Facts About Fredrik Elfving

Fredrik Elfving wrote the books Tarkeimmat viljelyskasvit and the Kasvitieteen oppikirja, which were widely used as textbooks.

Fredrik Elfving graduated with honours from Turku High School in 1870.

Fredrik Elfving intended to enter medical school, but first had to obtain a Candidate of Philosophy degree, with a specialization in botany.

Fredrik Elfving obtained his Candidate of Philosophy degree on, at age 20, having performed exceptionally in his final exams.

Fredrik Elfving obtained a Master's degree in philosophy on, and officially began training in botany in 1878 after moving to Germany.

Fredrik Elfving became a Doctor of Philosophy on 3 February 1880.

Also that year, Fredrik Elfving published Anteckningar om finska Desmidieer, in which he enumerated 258 species of the Desmidiales, nine of them new to science.

Later in 1880, Fredrik Elfving went abroad to study under the supervision of Heinrich Anton de Bary in Strasbourg, France.

Fredrik Elfving then studied for a few months under George Engelmann in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and then with Gaston Bonnier and Emile Duclaux in Paris from December 1886 to March 1887.

Fredrik Elfving attended academic conferences in Stockholm, in Kristiania, and in Berlin.

Fredrik Elfving served as Dean of the Department of Physics and Mathematics from 1911 to 1924.

Fredrik Elfving helped contribute to the acceptance of Darwinism in Finnish academia.

In contrast, Ernst Gustaf Palmen, who was Fredrik Elfving's colleague, explained that in his experience, the worst students actually came from upper-class families.

In 1894, Fredrik Elfving started an inquiry into the distribution of plants in Finland.

Fredrik Elfving's research determined that the tips invariably turned in such a direction as to bring the longitudinal axis back into a horizontal position in the ground, a reaction caused by the force of gravity.

In 1882, Fredrik Elfving published the results of an investigation carried out in de Bary's laboratory into the flow of water through ligneous stems.

Fredrik Elfving disproved the idea in an experiment in which he caused melted cocoa butter to be sucked into the stem of a freshly cut Taxus, which he then allowed to cool and harden.

Fredrik Elfving thought that if he could show that there was a genetic connection between the two components of the lichen, it would effectively destroy Schwenderer's theory.

However, by 1913, it was well-established that the "gonids" in the lichen thallus are actual green and blue-green algal cells, and if Fredrik Elfving's view were to be accepted, it would essentially overturn the entire taxonomy of cryptogams.

Fredrik Elfving published a continuation of his research 18 years later, titled Weitere Untersuchungen uber Flechtengonidien, which he started with the motto.

Fredrik Elfving was renown for his skill in repartee, and his witty, lapidary remarks were widely quoted.

Fredrik Elfving was at one time on the editorial board of this journal, starting in 1877, and later became one of its publishers, from October 1883 to December 1885.

Fredrik Elfving frequently wrote for Helsingfors Dagblad, a Swedish-language newspaper published from 1861 to 1889.

Fredrik Elfving was extraordinarily prone to pursue peculiar ideas of his own, displaying a sovereign disregard for recognized authorities and received opinions.

Fredrik Elfving died in Helsinki on 21 June 1942, at the age of 87.

Fredrik Elfving was one of the first researchers in plant physiology in the Nordic countries.

Fredrik Elfving was a keen historian, and wrote numerous biographical articles, the first of which dealt with Linnaeus.

Fredrik Elfving made centenary accounts of Finland's two oldest scientific societies, the Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica and Societas Scientiarum Fennica.

Fredrik Elfving developed methods for teaching university botany and introduced, among other things, laboratory courses.

Fredrik Elfving introduced microscope training as applied to vascular plant anatomy in 1880, the year before his appointment as docent.

Fredrik Elfving had developed a reputation as a "very colorful and strong personality" and an "excessively demanding teacher".

Botany was still a compulsory minor for medical students in the early 20th century, which made the medical faculty upset by the fact that Fredrik Elfving was allegedly severely hindering the studies of medical students, even though botany was not particularly relevant to medicine itself.

Fredrik Elfving published several textbooks that would help him and others teach their botanical courses more efficiently.

Fredrik Elfving worked for the Institute of Botanics in the Botanical Garden and lived with his family at the Professor's residence.

Fredrik Elfving worked hard to acquire numerous species of shrubs and trees in his role as director of the Botanical Garden, and the greenhouses became a landmark attraction.

Fredrik Elfving received the Order of Saint Anna, 3rd Class, Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland, and Commander First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.

Taxa that have been named after Elfving include the polypore genus Elfvingia ; the lichen taxa Rhizocarpon grande f elfvingii, Aspicilia elfvingii, and Celidium varians subsp.