Background
Johan Anders Murray was born in Stockholm on 27 January 1740, son of the Prussian-born preacher and theologian Andreas Murray (1695 - 1771).
Johan Anders Murray was born in Stockholm on 27 January 1740, son of the Prussian-born preacher and theologian Andreas Murray (1695 - 1771).
Murray studied from 1756-1759 in Uppsala, where he was taught by Carl Linnaeus.
In 1760 he went to Göttingen, where he became a Doctor of Medicine in 1763. In 1769 he was appointed professor and director of the botanical garden. He led investigations into the properties of medicinal plants, at that time the main interest of botanists, and into the ways in which plant-derived medicines could be prepared and administered.
Murray died in Göttingen on 22 May 1791.
The citrus genus Murraya is named for Johan Andreas Murray.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.