Peter Artedi
Swedish zoologist (1705-1735)
Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius (27 February 1705 – 28 September 1735) was a Swedish naturalist and collaborator of Carolus Linnaeus. He is sometimes known as the "father of ichthyology" for his pioneering work in classifying the fishes into groups.
Life and work
Artedi was born in Anundsjö in the province of Ångermanland. His paternal grandfather Petrus Martini was the son of a farmer and lived in Hiske (now Umeå). Petrus Martini went to the Royal Academy of Åbo and became a minister in the Church of Sweden. He adopted the Latin surname Archtaedius, becoming vicar in Nordmaling. Artedi's father Olaus Petri also went to Åbo but spelt his surname as Arctaedius. He eventually succeeded the position of his father at Nordmaling. He was married to Helena Sidenia and they had five children of whom only three survived. Petrus Artedi, the second of these three, followed the family tradition and intending to become a clergyman, he went after schooling in Härnösand, in 1724, to study theology at Uppsala University, but he turned his attention to medicine and natural history, especially ichthyology, a science that he influenced greatly.
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