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5 unusual facts about Carl Peter Thunberg


Ciliwung

By the end of the 18th century, Doctor Thunberg still prescribed tea leaves instead of boiled water.

Dejima

Sometimes physicians such as Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Philipp Franz von Siebold were called to high-ranking Japanese patients with the permission of the authorities.

J.W. Spaulding brought with him books by Japanologists Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Isaac Titsingh.

Inaba Masanobu

Thunberg's trip from Dejima to Edo passed through Yamashiro, and his account reports that Masanobu was daimyō of Yodo .

Robert Jacob Gordon

During 1772/73 Robert visited the Cape Colony and met Carl Peter Thunberg and Francis Masson.


Claës Fredrik Hornstedt

Claës Fredrik Hornstedt (12 February 1758 Linköping – May 1809 Helsinki) was a Swedish naturalist, taxonomist, botanical illustrator and a protégé of Carl Peter Thunberg.

Sansevieria

The genus was originally named Sanseverinia by Petagna to honor his patron Pietro Antonio Sanseverino, Count of Chiaromonte (1724-1771), but the name was altered for unknown reasons by Thunberg, possibly influenced by the name of Raimondo di Sangro (1710–1771), prince of San Severo in Italy.


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