page_title: Johannes Palmberg
section_title: Scientist and botanist
hierarchical_section_title: Johannes Palmberg / Biography / Scientist and botanist
caption_attribution_description: English: 15th century book page from Swenske Örtekrantz by Johannes Palmberg on description and medical use of wormwood, Artemisia absinthium
context_page_description: Johannes Palmberg was a Swedish botanist, physician, and priest. He published the early Swedish textbook in botany, ’’Serta Florea Svecana’’ or ’’Swenske Örtekrantz’’, a Flora with alphabetically arranged pictures of the 150 most common trees and herbs together with descriptions of their use for medical purposes.
context_section_description: Palmberg published in 1671 a dissertation in Latin on scurvy – Exercitatiomedica brevissimam Scorbuti delineationem exhibeus. However, it was his floral textbook – Serta Florea Svecana or Swenske Örtekrantz (1684) – that has contributed the most to life sciences. It was used in Sweden as textbook in botany during sixty years before replaced by Carl von Linnés Flora Svecica in 1745 and was the source of Carl Linnaeus early botanical understanding. Örtekrantzen was published in three editions, the most recent as late as 1738.
caption: From Serta Florea Svecana – Absinthium
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