Martin Vahl (botanist)

Martin Vahl (botanist)

Martin Vahl (born October 10, 1749 in Bergen - died December 24, 1804 in Copenhagen) was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.

He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited "Flora Danica" fasc. XVI-XXI (1787-1799), "Symbolæ Botanicæ" I-III (1790-1794), "Eclogæ Americanæ" I-IV (1796-1807) and "Enumeratio Plantarum" I-II (1804-1805). He lectured at the University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden from 1779 to 1782.

Vahl made several research trips in Europe and North Africa between 1783 and 1788. He became professor at the Society for Natural History in Copenhagen in 1786 and was a full professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen from 1801 to his death.

His son Jens Vahl also became a botanist.

References

Christensen, Carl (1932) Martin Vahl, pp. 85-88 in: Meisen, V. Prominent Danish Scientists through the Ages. University Library of Copenhagen 450th Anniversary. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen.

External links

[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/title/b1190222x Facsimile of "Enumeratio plantarum", Hauniae, 1805-1806.]


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