Nikolaj Hartz

Nikolaj Eeg Kruse Hartz (born August 23, 1867 in Randers , † May 7, 1937 in Frederiksberg ) was a Danish botanist and paleobotanist .

Life

Hartz studied botany at the University of Copenhagen with a master's degree in 1895 and received his doctorate in 1909 on the flora of the Eocene in Denmark. From 1896 he worked as a paleobotanist with the geological service of Denmark, but gave up his career there in 1913 to join the family company. From 1899 to 1919 and 1931 until his death he was also a teacher of geology at the state teachers' college.

With Vilhelm Milthers he introduced the Allerød Interstadial in 1901 . He is known for studying the flora of Greenland , where several expeditions took him from 1889 to 1900 .

The grass species Poa hartzii was named in his honor (he collected it in Greenland).

In 1909 he became a knight of the Dannebrog Order . He was a corresponding member of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography and received the Berzelius Medal.

Fonts

• Ostgrønlands Vegetationsforhold , Medd. om Grønland, 18, 1896, pp. 105–314
• The Danish expedition to East Greenland 1891/92 , Petermanns Mitteilungen, 38, 1897, pp. 263–265
• De palæontologiske Forhold , in: Hartz, Milthers, Det senglaciale Ferskvandsler i Allerød Teglværksgrav, Medd. Dansk Geolog. Forening, No. 8, 1901, pp. 41-60

literature

• Knud Jessen , obituary in Botanisk Tidsskrift 44, 1937, pp. 242–243.
• Knud Jessen, obituary in Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 9, 1937, pp. 237-240. PDF (250 kB; Danish)

Web links

• N. Hartz in Dansk biografisk leksikon (Danish)