Afzelius

Afzelius, ADAM, Swedish botanist, born 8th October 1750, became professor of Oriental Languages at Upsala, and in 1785 demonstrator in Botany there. He visited Sierra Leone in 1792, was for a time secretary of the Swedish Legation in London, and in 1812 became professor of Materia Medica at Upsala, where he died in 1837. As a pupil of Linnæus he edited his autobiography; and he wrote several works on the plants of the Guinea coast.