# Apostle Christopher Tärnström dies on the outward voyage to Asia

Date: 1746

## The fact

In 1746 Christopher Tärnström, sent as a Linnaean apostle toward Asia, died on the outward voyage, an early cost of the pupil-collecting programme. Ship fever and tropical disease were foreseeable risks of East India routes. Linnaeus did not sail. He still issued the intellectual order to go.

## Context

Several apostles died abroad. Tärnström is the named early case. Wives and parishes paid privately. No unique widow’s pension is invented. Sharing with the Swedish East India Company does not erase the teacher. Do not treat later missionary deaths as this 1746 fact.

## Evidence and sources

Linnean Society at https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus discusses apostles sent abroad, including the human cost of the programme. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus independently notes the network of travelling pupils.

Official or archival record: Linnean Society — Who was Linnaeus? (https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus; The Linnean Society of London).

## Significance

Infectious-harm path of modest weight for a named pupil. High confidence Tärnström died as a sent collector. Solander’s later surviving voyage is another row.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Tärnström died in 1746 as a Linnaean apostle on the Asian voyage. Not established: a unique pathogen identified in a ship log quoted here. Contribution is recorded as He sent Tärnström as an apostle. The East India voyage and shipboard disease killed him. Complex. The impact note is Dispatching a student into a disease-heavy voyage for specimens is an infectious-harm path for the named dead, modest weight. The dated heading stays Apostle Christopher Tärnström dies on the outward voyage to Asia on 1746-12-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Tärnström’s death is not Solander 1768. Mixed effects of Apostle Christopher Tärnström dies on the outward voyage to Asia are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is infectious-disease-transmission. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Apostle Christopher Tärnström dies on the outward voyage to Asia. Naming Carl Linnaeus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1746-12-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Carl Linnaeus: https://factrail.ai/people/carl-linnaeus

## Drivers

- Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus
- https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-tarnstrom-1746