Johan Siebke (17 June 1781 – 14 August 1857) was a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

botanical gardener. Siebke grew up in

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. He was a student and apprentice gardener at the

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. For the first four decades on it operation, he served as the botanical gardener of the University of Oslo Botanical Garden in the neighborhood of

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, Norway.

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1781 births 1857 deaths People from Schleswig-Holstein German emigrants to Norway 19th-century Norwegian botanists {{Norway-scientist-stub