Jens Holmboe (5 May 1880 – 24 July 1943) was a

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, professor and author. Jens Holmboe was born at

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Aust-Agder Aust-Agder (, en, "East Agder") was a county (''fylke'') in Norway until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Vest-Agder to form Agder county. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which was 2.2% of Norway's population. Its area was . The ...

, Norway. He was the oldest son of physician Michael Holmboe (1852-1918) and his wife Eleonore Vogt (1857–1901). His grandfather Jens Holmboe was a prominent politician. He attended

Oslo Cathedral School Schola Osloensis, known in Norwegian language, Norwegian as Oslo Katedralskole (''Oslo Cathedral School'') and more commonly as "Katta",

and studied botany at the

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(now University of Oslo). He was hired as a

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of the Botanical Department of

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in 1906, and became professor there in 1914. In 1925 he was appointed professor at the

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and manager of the University Botanical Garden. Among his notable publications were ''Planterester i norske Torvmyrer'' in 1903, ''Studies on the Vegetation of Cyprus'' in 1914, and the six-volume ''Våre ville planter'', written with Torstein Lagerberg and published between 1937 and 1940. He was also editor-in-chief of the periodical ''

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'' between 1906 and 1925.

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1880 births 1943 deaths People from Aust-Agder People from Tvedestrand People educated at Oslo Cathedral School University of Oslo alumni 20th-century Norwegian botanists University of Bergen faculty University of Oslo faculty Norwegian botanical writers Jens {{Norway-botanist-stub