Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Kjoeping, Oläus

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Kjoeping, Oläus

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Edition of 1892. This is a fictitious person. There is a marked incompatibility in that the subject was supposedly Swedish, but the titles of two of the alleged literary works are written in German, and there are spelling errors in the titles of two of the alleged literary works. The title of two of the literary works have also been partially copied from legitimate literary works, while the title of another literary work references Mississippi, which was not named as such until 1798, i.e. six years after the date of the alleged work's publication.

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KJOEPING, Oläus (kyuh-ping), Swedish explorer, b. in Dalecarlia in 1741; d. in Soroe, Denmark, in 1809. He entered the Danish service as military surgeon, and was stationed for several years in the West Indies, also visiting Louisiana, Guiana, and New Spain. In 1796 he became rector of the academy of Soroe. His works concerning America, include “Beschreibung von Guiana” (Soroe, 1797); “Neueste Gemälde von Louisiana und Mississippi” (2 vols., 1792); “Prodromus floræ, sistens enumerationem plantarum cellularium quas in insulas, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Sancti Thomæ et Sancti Bartholomei a Kjoeping collectas describit” (Copenhagen, 1799); and “Anmärkningar om Planter af Cuba” (3 vols., 1807).