Carl Hansen Ostenfeld

Carl Emil Hansen Ostenfeld (born August 3, 1873 in Randers , † January 16, 1931 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Ostenf. "

Life

Ostenfeld studied botany at the University of Copenhagen with Eugen Warming with a master's degree in 1897. From 1900 he was inspector at the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen. In 1906 he received his doctorate and in 1918 he became professor of botany at the Veterinary and Agricultural College in Copenhagen. In 1931 he succeeded Christen Raunkiær as professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Botanical Garden .

He explored the flora of Denmark, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland (including marine plankton), and Western Australia (where he traveled in 1914). He has been on expeditions to Greenland several times, as a student in 1895 and 1896 (Ingolf expedition).

He was on the council of the Carlsberg Foundation (from 1921) and knight of the Dannebrog Order . He was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences . In 1917 he received the Prix Desmazières of the Académie des Sciences . In 1928 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Honors

According to him, the plant genus Feldstonia P.S.Short from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and the mushroom genus Ostenfeldiella Ferd. & Winge named.

Fonts

with Otto Gelert: Flora Arctica, Volume 1, Copenhagen 1902
The flora of Greenland and its origin. Biologiske Meddelelser, Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 6, 1926, pp. 1-71
with Johannes Grøntved: The Flora of Iceland and the Færoes, Copenhagen, 1934

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Hansen Ostenfeld - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Salmonsens konversationsleksikon (Danish)
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Carl Hansen Ostenfeld at the IPNI (without algae, lichens and fungi)

personal data
SURNAME	Ostenfeld, Carl Hansen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ostenfeld, Carl Emil Hansen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Randers
DATE OF DEATH	January 16, 1931
Place of death	Copenhagen

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .