For the footballer, see Andreas Dahl Anders (Andreas) Dahl (March 17, 1751 - May 25, 1789) was a Swedish botanist and student of Carolus Linnaeus. The dahlia flower is named after him. In 1770, Dahl entered Uppsala University as a freshman (Carolus Linnaeus died in 1778).After receiving the bachelor's degree, he worked in Gothenburg as curator ofthe private natural museum and botanic garden of Claes Alströmer.In 1786 he received a medical doctor's degree at the University of Kiel, Germany.In 1787 he started to teach medicine and botany at the university in Academy of Åbo(today's University of Helsinki). Dahl was a renowned botanist, the publisher of Observationes botanicæ circa Systema vegetabilium divi a Linné. Notes In 1751, Sweden still used the Julian calendar, so the birth date might be off by 10 days. Botanists with author abbreviationsSwedish botanistsSwedish biologist

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