Daniel Rolander (1722/3[1] – 10 August 1793) was a Swedish biologist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
[2] Rolander was born to a simple family in Hälleberga, Småland, Sweden and studied at Uppsala University where he came under the influence of Linnaeus.
Rolander's work was used by Christen Friis Rottbøll as the basis of botanical publications later in the 18th century.
Linnaeus' power and prestige in the academic world made it possible for him to blackball Rolander.
Thus, he was unable to gain an academic position and did not publish his findings, gradually drifting into obscurity and poverty due to a misfortune (perhaps the death of a patron he had finally found) and his apparently abrasive personality.