Carl Christensen (botanist)

Short description: Danish systematic botanist

Carl Frederik Albert Christensen (16 January 1872 – 24 November 1942) was a Denmark systematic botanist. He graduated in natural history from the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugenius Warming. He was then a school teacher in Copenhagen, and later superintendent at the Botanical Museum. He was a specialist in ferns and published a catalogue of the World's Pteridophytes, Index Filicum. In addition, he authored a three-volume work on the history of botany in Denmark .

## Selected scientific works

* Christensen, Carl (1905–06) Index Filicum. 744 s. Index Filicum Supplementum I-III (1913–17). Reprint 1973 by Koeltz Antiquariat.
* Christensen, Carl (1924-1926) Den danske botaniks historie med tilhørende Bibliografi. København, H. Hagerups Forlag. Three vols. 680 s.

The standard author abbreviation C.Chr. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

## References

* Pichi-Sermolli, R. (1946). "Carl Christensen in memoriam (1872–1942)". Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano. nueva serie 53 (1-2).
* Benedict, R. C. (1912). "Carl Frederik Albert Christensen: Some Biographical Notes". American Fern Journal 2 (2): 53–57. doi:10.2307/1544606.
* Asplund, E. (1945). "Carl Christensen". American Fern Journal 35 (4): 131–132.

1. ↑ IPNI, C.Chr., http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=C.Chr.

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