Species Browallia viscosa

For Johannes Browallius (1707–1755), Finnish and Swedish Lutheran theologian, physicist and botanist. He was a professor of physics (1737–1746) at the Åbo Akademi, now the University of Helsinki, then professor of theology (1746–1749) and bishop of Turku (Åbo) (a diocese of the Church of Sweden). He became vice-chancellor of the Royal Academy of Turku from 1749 to 1755. Linnaeus’s friendship with him was confirmed when Browallius defended Linnaeus’s Systema naturae (1735) against Johan Georg Siegesbeck’s vicious attack on his theory that stamens and pistils could be likened to male and female organs by which plants reproduce themselves. This friendship turned into hatred when Browallius advised Linnaeus to finish his studies abroad and marry a rich girl, even though he was already engaged to Sara Lisa Morea. In Linnaeus’s absence abroad, he courted Morea.