Anton Rolandsson Martin

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Anton Rolandsson Martin (3 August 1729 at

Åbo) was a Swedish botanist.[1]

He was son of Roland Martin, who later became an appeals court judge, and was born when the family was visiting friends in present-day

Royal Academy of Åbo in 1745, where he spent time as a musician and music teacher, while at the same time doing botanical excursions and discovering several plants previously unknown in Finland
.

He worked as a tutor in

Pehr Wargentin, the permanent secretary of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and presenting some papers to the academy, he was enrolled as an apprentice student at the academy in 1756. He also enrolled at Uppsala University
1756, and received a bachelor's degree in medicine in Uppsala 1761.

In Uppsala,

leper and migrations of herring
.

In 1761, after his degree in medicine, he moved to Stockholm intending to finish his education and at the same time practice as a physician. In the autumn he became ill, and after months of pain he was forced have his right leg amputated after it had been attacked by gangrene. He thereafter abandoned his plans for a higher degree, and in 1763 went to Finland, where he lived on small means in different cities but from 1770 in Åbo, receiving some financial support from friends. He continued to make scientific observations and experiments, in particular relating to physiology.

References

  1. Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon
    , Vol. 25 (1985-1987), p. 188
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