Svante Samuel Murbeck

Svante Samuel Murbeck (20 October 1859 - 26 May 1946) was a Swedish professor, botanist, pteridologist and explorer.

While studying at Lund University, Murbeck undertook a successful field trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina before receiving his PhD in geology and botany in 1891.

Murbeck returned to Lund University to become professor of botany and director of the Botaniska trädgården from 1902-24.

[2][3] Starting from 1886 he co-edited the exsiccata Violæ Sueciæ exsiccatæ quas adjuvante Carl Areskog ediderunt L. M. Neuman, L. J. Wahlstedt, S. S.

[6] In 1939, botanist Werner Hugo Paul Rothmaler published Murbeckiella, a genus of flowering plants in the mustard family Brassicaceae and named in his honour.