Ferdinand Didrichsen

Didrik Ferdinand Didrichsen (3 July 1814 in Copenhagen – 19 March 1887 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish botanist and physicist.

Ferdinand Didrichsen, in a photograph by Budtz Müller (1868).

He participated as botanist in the first Galathea Expedition (1845—1847). In 1851 he began work as a librarian at the botanical gardens in Copenhagen. From 1856 to 1875 he was an associate professor of botany.[1] In 1875, Didrichsen succeeded Anders Sandøe Ørsted as professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen and director of the botanic garden, whereby the already then much better known Eugen Warming was passed over. After Didrichsen's retirement in 1885, Warming succeeded him in both positions.

As a taxonomist, he described the botanical genera Mostuea, Myriogomphus, Pogonophyllum and Stenonia, as well as numerous plant species. Many of these findings were published in the Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn.[2] Taxa with the specific epithet of didrichsenii are named in his honor.[3]

Publications
  • Plantas nonnullas musei Universitatis Hauniensis descripsit, 1854.
  • For hundrede Aar siden : smaa Samlinger til et Tidsrum af den danske Botaniks Historie : særskilt Aftryk af "Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift", 3. R. 6. B., 1869.[4]
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gollark: My pair decided to make a device which would:* display text sent over serial* make a nice beepy noise when a thing was sentand write a program on a Pi connected to it which would download an RSS feed and send the latest feed item constantly.
gollark: For some stupid reason we were meant to make some random useless project with a box of stuff (motor, LCD, LEDs, a few sensors).
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References
  1. Botaniska Notiser translated biography
  2. IPNI List of taxa described & co-described by Didrichsen.
  3. JSTOR Global Plants Type of Mastigobryum didrichsenii Steph.
  4. WorldCat Search publications)
  5. IPNI.  Didr.


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