August Mentz (5 December 1867 – 5 November 1944) was a
Danish
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botanist,
peat extraction
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and
moor reclamation expert and a pioneer in
nature conservation.
Mentz studied
botany
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at the
University of Copenhagen
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under professor
Eugen Warming
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. He was employed by the
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Moor Reclamation Society ("Det danske Hedeselskab") from 1899 to 1923. In 1912 he defended his
doctoral thesis
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on the “Current Vegetation of Danish Bogs and Swamps” (Mentz 1912). From 1923 to 1938, he was professor of
botany
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at
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
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. He edited two voluminous colour plate floras – ”Billeder af Nordens Flora” and “Vilde Planter i Norden”.
Mentz was chairman of the
state
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advisory board on conservation (”Naturfredningsrådet”) 1925–1944. However, with his background in
moor reclamation, he had a foot in both camps – utilitarianism and conservationism.
Selected publications
* Mentz, A. (1892) A fossil clay coast vegetation from Store Vildmose. Botanisk Tidsskrift 18 (2). (in
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).
* Mentz, A. (1909)
The structure and biology of Arctic flowering plants (ed.
E. Warming.
Empetraceae.
Empetrum nigrum
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.
Meddelelser om Grønland
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36: 155–167.
* Mentz, A. (1909) Naturfredning - særlig i Danmark. Udvalget for Naturfredning og Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag,
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. 63 pp (in
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).
* Mentz, A. (1912) Studier over danske Mosers recente Vegetation. Gyldendalske Boghandel,
København
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, 287 pp. Doctoral thesis (in
Danish
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).
* Mentz, A. &
Ostenfeld, C.H. (1901-1907) Billeder af Nordens Flora. København : G.E.C. Gads Forlag. Vol. 1–4, With 633 plates (in
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).
* Mentz, A. (1928
Naturen og Forskeren. Kritisk Revy 3: 27-32(in
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).
*
Jessen, Knud & A. Mentz (1937-1940): Vilde Planter i Norden. G.E.C. Gad,
København
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(in
Danish
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).
* Gram, K., Jensen, Hj. & Mentz, A. (1937) Nytteplanter. Gyldendal, København. 504 pp. (in
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).
References
*
Spärck, R. (1945) August Mentz, 5/12-1867 - 5/11-1944. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, vol. 108.
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19th-century Danish botanists
University of Copenhagen alumni
1867 births
1944 deaths
20th-century Danish botanists