Ove Paulsen

(1874 - 1947)

Danish Botanist. Curator at the Botanical Museum 1905-18, leader of the Museum 1918-20. Professor of botany at the Danish College of Pharmacy 1920-47. Studied the Danish flora, plancton of the North Atlantic, and the flora of Central Asia. Marine biological expeditions with the ship "Fyen" to the West Indies 1898-99, with "Dana" 1928, and with "Thor" 1903-06 and 1908-09. Expeditions to Northern Persia and Pamir 1989-99.

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