Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus

blood poisoning and became a teacher. He married Aline Mathilde Sandman (born 1853^[2]), daughter of Jonas Sandman, a Justice in the Court of Appeal, in 1879 at the age of thirty, and had four children. She died in 1894 and he did not remarry.^[3] He taught natural history and mathematics at the Swedish girls' school in Vaasa

Andreaeales, and Bryales, and continued to the second edition.^[5] By invitation of Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti, he authored the section on Chinese mosses in the Symbolae Sinicae. His collaborations and correspondence with other bryologists of the day were extensive. In particular, he was well acquainted with Max Fleischer, and used Fleischer's new 'natural' system of moss classification, which was outlined in the latter's Die Musci der Flora von Buitenzorg, in his own systematic description of the mosses in Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien.^[1] Brotherus's unique achievement was his synthesis of moss taxonomy

exsiccatae, among others the series Bryotheca Fennica. The specimens are deposited in major herbaria around the world (e.g. B, BM, FH, K, L, P).^[7] The standard botanical abbreviation of his name is Broth. The journal Bryobrothera, published by the Finnish Bryological Society, is named in his honor. Numerous genera and species of mosses, e.g. Brothera, Brotherella, Brotherobryum, are named for him. Members of his family (see Brotherus