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Ekeberg, Carl Gustaf

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

Born: 1716, Djursholm, N of Stockholm, Sweden.
Died: 1784, Altomto-gård, in Upland, N of Stockholm.

career:

Started studying pharmacy, later medicine, and accompanied two voyages to Spain as a ship’s surgeon. His nautical interest made him enlist in the Swedish East India Company as a mate in 1741; from 1759 onwards captain. He made 10 voyages to East India and China and brought home important natural history collections; after his retirement he settled at Altomto. With his many-sided education he did work in many fields, making maps, magnetical and meteorological observations, studying botany and zoology, making large collections, diaries, notes, and drawings.¹

His first relation and correspondence with Linné and the Royal Swedish Academy dates from 1750; since 1761 a member of the said Academy. A correspondent of Bergius too.²

His publications include a paper on Banka Straits, mainly nautical, but giving also a description of coasts, forests, and beaches.³

At Altomta his house (Ekebergsrummet) is still kept.

He is commemorated in the genus Ekebergia Sparrm.

Collecting localities:⁴

Voyages to the East. In the ‘Drottningen av Sverige’, sailing from Göteborg Jan. 10, 1742; running aground and consequently staying for 6 months in Annam; back in Sweden on July 1, 1744.-In the ‘Götha Leyon’ (Capt. Askbom), sailing Dec. 27, 1746 for Canton, staying there the whole year 1748, back in Sweden June 20, 1749; during the voyage Java was visited.-In the ? ‘Hoppet’ to Canton, Dec. 1751-June 1754.-To Canton, in the ? ‘Sophia Albertina’, Jan. 1755-Aug. 1756.-In the ‘Friederic Adolph’, Feb. 1759-Aug. 1760, touching Java at least on the home voyage.-In the ‘Finland’, Feb. 1762-Aug. 1763; running aground in Banka Straits, but getting off again.-In the ‘Stockholms Slott’ (see also A. Sparrman, itinerary for Java etc.), sailing Dec. 28, 1765, back in Sweden Aug. 1767.-In the ‘Finland’, Dec. 1769-June 7, 1771⁵, reaching Anjer (W. Java) Aug. 8, 1770.-In the ‘Sophia Magdalena’ (see also P.J. Bladh), Jan. 1774-June 1775, visiting Batavia and Angkè on the N. coast of W. Java.-His last voyage in the ‘Sofia Magdalena’, Jan. 1777-June 1778.

Probably most or all of the China voyages were made via Java.

collections:

Among the plants collected by Hornstedt (Herb. Acad. Sci. Stockholm), studied by Dr van Steenis in March 1949, were some sheets on which was written by Bergius: ‘Ekeberg e Java’; also some from Cochin-China and Canton. The plants must have been collected during the voyage of Capt. C.G. Ekeberg to China, in 1765-67 (for Itiner., Liter., etc., cf. sub A. Sparrman).

The Bergius Herb. (R. Ac. Sc. Stockholm [SBT]) includes plants collected by him in Sumatra, Cochinchina, Ind. Or., and Java. He also presented collections to Linnaues (Herb. Linn. Soc. Lond. [LINN]), possibly the older ones.

literature:

(1) Diary etc. in R. Swed. Ac. Sc., Stockholm.
(2) MS letters to Bergius in R. Swed. Ac. Sc., Stockholm, written 1766-74.
(3) C.G. Ekeberg: ‘Anmärkningar och Beskrifning öfver Banca-Sundet uti Ost-Indien’ (K. Vetensk. Handl. 37, 1776, p. 122-130).
(4) Cf. C. Forsstrand: ‘Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, hans färder till Ostindien och Kina, naturvetenskaplige intressen och förbindelser med Linné’ (Svensk. Linné-Sällskapets Årsskrift 11, 1928, p. 147-161, incl. bibliogr.); and in E. Olán: ‘Ostindiska compagniets saga’ (1920).
(5) C.G. Ekeberg: ‘Capitaine Carl Gustaf Ekebergs Ostindiska Resa, åren 1770 och 1771’ (1773) (n.v.); J. Wallenberg: ‘Min son på galejan’ (1781; several editions, 1855, 1881, etc.).

biographical data:

Bretschneider, Hist. Bot. Disc. China 1898, p. 60-61; Svensk. Linné-Sällskap. Arsskr. 11, 1928, p. 147 seq.; ibid. 29, 1946, p. 83-84, fig. 2-3 (portr.); Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Ekeberg, Carl Gustaf
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	Born: 1716, Djursholm, N of Stockholm, Sweden. Died: 1784, Altomto-gård, in Upland, N of Stockholm.
	career: Started studying pharmacy, later medicine, and accompanied two voyages to Spain as a ship’s surgeon. His nautical interest made him enlist in the Swedish East India Company as a mate in 1741; from 1759 onwards captain. He made 10 voyages to East India and China and brought home important natural history collections; after his retirement he settled at Altomto. With his many-sided education he did work in many fields, making maps, magnetical and meteorological observations, studying botany and zoology, making large collections, diaries, notes, and drawings.¹ His first relation and correspondence with Linné and the Royal Swedish Academy dates from 1750; since 1761 a member of the said Academy. A correspondent of Bergius too.² His publications include a paper on Banka Straits, mainly nautical, but giving also a description of coasts, forests, and beaches.³ At Altomta his house (Ekebergsrummet) is still kept. He is commemorated in the genus Ekebergia Sparrm.
	Collecting localities:⁴ Voyages to the East. In the ‘Drottningen av Sverige’, sailing from Göteborg Jan. 10, 1742; running aground and consequently staying for 6 months in Annam; back in Sweden on July 1, 1744.-In the ‘Götha Leyon’ (Capt. Askbom), sailing Dec. 27, 1746 for Canton, staying there the whole year 1748, back in Sweden June 20, 1749; during the voyage Java was visited.-In the ? ‘Hoppet’ to Canton, Dec. 1751-June 1754.-To Canton, in the ? ‘Sophia Albertina’, Jan. 1755-Aug. 1756.-In the ‘Friederic Adolph’, Feb. 1759-Aug. 1760, touching Java at least on the home voyage.-In the ‘Finland’, Feb. 1762-Aug. 1763; running aground in Banka Straits, but getting off again.-In the ‘Stockholms Slott’ (see also A. Sparrman, itinerary for Java etc.), sailing Dec. 28, 1765, back in Sweden Aug. 1767.-In the ‘Finland’, Dec. 1769-June 7, 1771⁵, reaching Anjer (W. Java) Aug. 8, 1770.-In the ‘Sophia Magdalena’ (see also P.J. Bladh), Jan. 1774-June 1775, visiting Batavia and Angkè on the N. coast of W. Java.-His last voyage in the ‘Sofia Magdalena’, Jan. 1777-June 1778. Probably most or all of the China voyages were made via Java.
	collections: Among the plants collected by Hornstedt (Herb. Acad. Sci. Stockholm), studied by Dr van Steenis in March 1949, were some sheets on which was written by Bergius: ‘Ekeberg e Java’; also some from Cochin-China and Canton. The plants must have been collected during the voyage of Capt. C.G. Ekeberg to China, in 1765-67 (for Itiner., Liter., etc., cf. sub A. Sparrman). The Bergius Herb. (R. Ac. Sc. Stockholm [SBT]) includes plants collected by him in Sumatra, Cochinchina, Ind. Or., and Java. He also presented collections to Linnaues (Herb. Linn. Soc. Lond. [LINN]), possibly the older ones.
	literature: (1) Diary etc. in R. Swed. Ac. Sc., Stockholm. (2) MS letters to Bergius in R. Swed. Ac. Sc., Stockholm, written 1766-74. (3) C.G. Ekeberg: ‘Anmärkningar och Beskrifning öfver Banca-Sundet uti Ost-Indien’ (K. Vetensk. Handl. 37, 1776, p. 122-130). (4) Cf. C. Forsstrand: ‘Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, hans färder till Ostindien och Kina, naturvetenskaplige intressen och förbindelser med Linné’ (Svensk. Linné-Sällskapets Årsskrift 11, 1928, p. 147-161, incl. bibliogr.); and in E. Olán: ‘Ostindiska compagniets saga’ (1920). (5) C.G. Ekeberg: ‘Capitaine Carl Gustaf Ekebergs Ostindiska Resa, åren 1770 och 1771’ (1773) (n.v.); J. Wallenberg: ‘Min son på galejan’ (1781; several editions, 1855, 1881, etc.).
	biographical data: Bretschneider, Hist. Bot. Disc. China 1898, p. 60-61; Svensk. Linné-Sällskap. Arsskr. 11, 1928, p. 147 seq.; ibid. 29, 1946, p. 83-84, fig. 2-3 (portr.); Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.