iFACTS | Anton Rolandsson Martin

Date of Birth	3 August 1729.
Place of Birth	Mijntenhoff Manor, Reval (present day Tallinn, Estonia), province of Lifland, Russia.
Date of Death	30 January 1785.
Place of Death	Turku [Åbo], Sweden.
Monuments Medals Etc.	Unknown.
Variations of Name's Spelling	Anton Rolandson Martin in ‘Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar’ (The Royal Academy of Sciences’ Transactions).
Preserved signature	In correspondence.
Portrait	Unknown.
Childhood, Adolescence & Education	Father, Justice of appeal Roland Martin. Mother, Ulrica Charlotta Rothkirch/Rotkirch. The family moved in the early 1730s to Stockholm, where the parents had lived before Anton’s birth. The family moved to Turku [Åbo] in Finland, mid 1730s. The family returned to Stockholm, 1741-1743. He returned to Finland 1743; student Åbo Academy, signed in 26 June 1745. Rolandsson Martin studied foremost music; but also languages, botany and physics. During this period in Åbo, he also made botanical excursions. Student, Uppsala University, signed in 2 September 1756. He studied predominantly natural history during two years. Graduate in Medicine, 15 April 1761.
Professional Life	Parallel with studies; he worked as a musician in Åbo Academy’s chapel 1749-1753. He moved to Stockholm 1753, worked as a tutor until 1756. Fellow of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1756. After the journeys 1758-1760; his plan was to practise as a physician and complete his Doctorate in Uppsala. But he became ill with gangrene and was forced after a longer period of illness - February 1762 - to amputate one of his legs. Anton Rolandsson Martin returned to Finland 1763 where he during periods lived in; Fredrikshamn, Valkeala, Helsingfors and Lovisa. He managed his daily life with scholarships added with small yearly maintenances from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm and Åbo Academy. He lived in Turku [Åbo] from 1770.
Journeys & Voyages	He journeyed with a whaling expedition to the Arctic in 1758 which lasted only three months. As far as is known, Martin only managed to get ashore a few hours at Spitsbergen and made very few discoveries of consequence. His major scientific contribution was the description of the petrel, which he named as Procellaria glacialis (now known as Fulmarus glacialis). (The journey was financed with 600 daler kopparmynt [rix-dollar copper coin] from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Rolandsson Martin also borrowed scientific instruments as thermometers and a compass from the Academy). Journey to Norway, midsummer 1759 via the fjelds of Jämtland in Sweden towards Trondheim, sea route to Christiansand and later to Bergen where he stayed a whole year. Returned to Sweden via Malmö during the autumn 1760, where after he travelled by land to Uppsala. (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences also contributed financially to this journey, but Rolandsson Martin had severe economical difficulties during the journey and returned home destitute).
Travel Diaries & Other Publications in Connection with the Journeys & Voyages	His diary was first published in 1881. Dagbok hållen vid en resa till Norrpolen eller Spitsbergen...1758. Ymer tidskrift 1881, Stockholm 1882. Meteorologiska Observationer, gjorde på en Resa til Spitsbärgen, published in Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar, Oct., Nov., Dec. 1758. Beskrifning på en Procellaria, som finnes vid Norr-polen, published in Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar, Vol. 20A, April, May, June 1759. ‘Tal om de Norska hushålning...1761’, manuscript, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. (First published in an English translation 2007 in The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science and Adventure, Vol. 2 Book 1, and in a Swedish transcription in Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift 2010).
Civil Status & Family	Unmarried.
Preserved Collections & Manuscripts	One single herbarium plant, Linnaean Herbarium in Stockholm. (Cochlearia groenlandica). Original manuscripts; 1-4. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. 1. ‘Tal om de Norskas Hushållning’ (Talk on Norwegian Housekeeping). 2. ‘Vita Auctoris’ (auto-biographical notes in Latin). 3. ‘Självbiografiska anteckningar’ (auto-biographical notes). 4. Other manuscripts by Anton Rolandsson Martin. Letters, The Linnean Society of London, Linnean Correspondence. (14 letters to Linnaeus, 1759-1770).
Extra Notes	Anton Rolandsson Martin’s journey to Spitsbergen lasted only three months and mainly at sea, but is still seen as an important pioneer to later arctic explorers.
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