Per Erland Berg Wendelbo (19 September 1927 – 25 September 1981) was a Norwegian botanist. He was born in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

, a son of physician Per Kristian Lund Wendelbo and textile designer

Sigrun Berg Sigrun Karoline Matina Berg (18 May 1901 – 18 May 1982) was a Norwegian weaver and textile designer. Biography Berg was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was a daughter of judge Paal Berg and Caroline Debes, and was the mother of ...

, and grandson of judge and politician

Paal Berg Paal Olav Berg (18 January 1873 – 24 May 1968), born in Hammerfest, was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was Minister of Social Affairs 1919–1920, and Minister of Justice 1924–1926. He was the 12th Chief Justice of the ...

. He was appointed professor of botany at the

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from 1965 to 1981, and was a specialist on Southwestern Asian flora. Among his publications are ''The Ariamehr Botanical Garden Handbook'' from 1974 and ''Tulips and Irises of Iran and their relatives'' from 1977. In 1959, he first published ''

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'' from

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, in 'Biologiske Skrifter' 10(3): 187.

Selected publications

References

1927 births 1981 deaths Scientists from Oslo 20th-century Norwegian botanists Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg Norwegian expatriates in Sweden {{norway-botanist-stub