Died 1747, Turku, Finland | Children Herman Spöring Jr. | |
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Herman Diedrich Spöring Sr. (or Spoering) (1701–1747) was a professor of Medicine at the Academy of Turku in Turku, Finland, and an amateur naturalist.
His son Herman Diedrich Spöring Jr. (1733–1771), a Finnish explorer and botanist, was one of the scientific personnel who accompanied James Cook on the 1768-71 HM Bark Endeavour expedition to the Pacific.
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