Frederik Marcus Knuth, 9th count of Knuthenborg (5 May 1904 – 14 June 1970) was a Danish

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

especially known for the collection and classification of

cactus A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...

es. He collected and described many new species. According to the

Bovrup File ''Bovrup-kartoteket'' ("The Bovrup File") is a partial transcript of the member file of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark ( da, Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Arbejderparti; DNSAP) created in 1945 by Danish resistance members and p ...

Knuth was a member of DNSAP.

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1904 births 1970 deaths 20th-century Danish botanists 20th-century Danish landowners Botanists active in South America Danish counts Danish explorers Danish Nazis Knuth family {{Denmark-botanist-stub