About Göran Rothman
Lived 1739 – 1778 (aged 39). Göran Rothman was a Swedish botanist, translator, physician and writer.
Göran Rothman (30 November 1739 – 3 December 1778) was a Swedish physician, naturalist and translator, remembered as an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Trained at Uppsala during the final flowering of the Linnaean school, he combined medical practice with botanical collecting and a brief, ill-fated scientific expedition to North Africa. His later years were spent practising medicine and producing Swedish translations of Voltaire, Alexander Pope and Italian libretti, while the flowering-plant genus Rothmannia preserves his name in taxonomy.
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Who was Göran Rothman?
Swedish botanist (1739-1778)
When was Göran Rothman born?
Göran Rothman was born on 30 November 1739 in Skatelöv parish.
When did Göran Rothman die?
Göran Rothman died on 3 December 1778 in Stockholm, Storkyrkoförsamlingen.
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Göran Rothman was a botanist, translator, physician and writer.
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Göran Rothman was Swedish.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Göran Rothman. https://biography.guide/goran-rothman/
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