How to Pronounce Frederik Børgesen
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Jan 01, 1866 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark Died on 22 Mar 1956 (aged 90)
Danish botanist
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About Frederik Børgesen
- Fredrik Christian Emil Børgesen (1 January 1866 in Copenhagen – 22 March 1956 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish botanist and phycologist.
- He graduated in botany from the University of Copenhagen and was subsequently employed as an assistant at the Botanical Museum (1893–1900).
- His doctoral thesis dealt with the marine algae of the Faroe Islands (1904).
- Later, he became librarian at the Library of the Botanical Garden (1900–1935). Børgesen made investigations of marine algae e.g.
- around India, Mauritius, the Canary Islands and the Antilles. Many species have been named to his honour, e.g.
- Coccoloba borgesenii (Polygonaceae) and numerous algae, e.g.
- Hypnea boergesenii (Hypneaceae) and Padina boergesenii (Phaeophyceae).
