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Edit Lendvainé Timár: A Swedish botanist-geographer in the Tatra Mountains - Göran Wahlenberg's research in the Northwest-Carpathians

EDIT LENDVAINÉ TÍMÁR A SWEDISH BOTANIST-GEOGRAPHER IN THE TATRA MOUNTAINS GÖRAN WAHLENBERG'S RESEARCH IN THE NORTHWEST-CARPATHIANS GÖRAN WAHLENBERG, THE FOUNDER OF "PLANT GEOGRAPHY" IN SWEDEN (vC^öran Wahlenberg was born on 1 October 1780 in Skarphyttan. He studied Çjy medicine and botany at the University of Uppsala after 1792. After 1801 he was an assistant in the natural history collection of the university. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1806. He was an outstanding student. First he went to Pomerania in 1796, and then he had several research trips to the islands of Gotland and Öland. Later he made four expeditions to Lappland. His trips to Lappland (1800, 1802, 1807, 1810) produced so much geographic and botanic information that his work surpassed the research of all his predecessors. He made a detailed map of the study region and compiled the geobotanical profile of the land. Wahlenberg realized that the physical geographical factors had a major role in the development of plants. This statement sums up the novelty of Wahlenberg's research method and his approach. This modern approach characterized all his work as in the summer 1813, when he carried out comparative geobotanical studies of the Tatra and Fátra Mountains. PREPARATIONS FOR A STUDY TRIP TO CENTRAL EUROPE "ahlenberg was interested in the Carpathian Mountains probably because of their geographical location: the Carpathians, the highest mountains in Central Europe, are a long way away from the oceans and the plant life is not influenced by the oceans.