Theodor Magnus Fries

Theodor Magnus Fries, known as Thore (1832 to 1913), was a Swedish botanist, lichenologist and Arctic explorer, the son of the mycologist Elias Fries. He studied botany and obtained his doctoral degree at Uppsala in 1857, became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1865 and in 1877 became professor of botany and applied economics at Uppsala. His most notable work was Lichenographia scandinavica, published in 1871 to 1874, and he also produced a two-volume biography of Carl Linnaeus in 1903. He took part in two Arctic expeditions led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, in 1868 and 1871, and from 1893 to 1899 he was vice-chancellor of Uppsala University.