Hanna Marie Resvoll-Holmsen

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Hanna Marie Resvoll Holmsen

Hanna Marie Resvoll-Holmsen also Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen (born September 11, 1873 in Vågå , † March 13, 1943 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian botanist . Your botanical author abbreviation is " Resv.-Holms. "

Life

Hanna Marie Resvoll-Holmsen was born as the daughter of Hans Resvoll and Julie Martine, b. Deichmann, born. When Hanna Maria was five years old, the family moved from Vågå to Oslo. Resvoll-Holmsen was often ill as a teenager, which meant that school attendance after she was 12 was interrupted. It was not until 1902, shortly after the divorce from her first husband, that she passed her Abitur at an old-language grammar school.

She then took up a degree in natural sciences. She chose botany as her main subject . They particularly influenced the lectures of the geologist Amund Helland . In 1907 she took part in the Nordland expedition to Spitzbergen , which had been initiated by the Prince of Monaco. A year later she carried out her own expedition. She published the knowledge about the flora of Spitzbergens gained in the context of the research trips in French.

In 1910 she received her diploma. The following years were marked by numerous research trips. Her expeditions took her to the mountains of Norway , Switzerland , southern France and the Pyrenees . In 1915 Hanna Marie Resvoll-Holmsen was granted a university scholarship. From 1921 until her retirement in 1938, she lectured on plant geography .

She was initially married to Hans Dieset, the marriage was divorced in 1901. In 1909 she married her brother-in-law Gunnar Holmsen (1880-1976), who was employed as a geologist for a government agency.

Scientific work

The scientific focus of Hanna Marie Resvoll-Holmsen was in the field of plant geography. In particular, she researched the mountain flora here , paying particular attention to the vegetation of the tree line . She wrote numerous ecological analyzes and presented her own observations. She was one of Norway's first scientists to use modern statistical methods for plant-sociological analyzes. She was also one of the first to use color photography as a means of documentation in botany.

Social Commitment

Bredo Berntsen described Hanna in his biography as one of the first Norwegian green stockings (after blue stockings ). Her sister Thekla Susanne Ragnhild Resvoll was also an important Norwegian botanist and politically active for women's rights and landscape protection.

Publications

  • Les observations botaniques de la campagne scientifique de SAS le Prince Albert 1er de Monaco. La misión Isachsen au Spitzberg 1907 - 1910
  • Observations botaniques - 1913
  • Om betingelserne for Spitsbergens planteliv - 1920
  • Om fjeld vegetation i det østenfjeldske Norge - 1920
  • Svalbard's Flora - 1927
  • Concerning the operation of the submission in the case of skoger. Tidsskrift for Skogbruk - 1932

literature

  • Renate Strohmeyer: Lexicon of the natural scientists and women of Europe . Verlag Harri Deutsch, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9 , p. 233.
  • Thor Andersen: Bibliografiske monografier , Finn boken, Fabritius Verlag, Oslo 1937–45. B. 1, pp. 84-184 snl.no

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bredo Berntsen . En green streams and hennes velvet: Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen: botanist, Svalbard forsker, fjellelsker, photographer and nature pioneer. Verlag Ossiania, 2006. ISBN 82-8030-008-2
personal data
SURNAME Resvoll-Holmsen, Hanna Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Resvoll-Holmsen, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Vågå
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1943
Place of death Oslo