Johannes Grøntved (25 January 1882 – 11 July 1956) was a Danish

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. He made investigations of

flora Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for f ...

and

vegetation Vegetation is an assemblage of plants and the ground cover they provide. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular Taxon, taxa, life forms, structure, Spatial ecology, spatial extent, or any other specific Botany, botanic ...

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

, the

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat ...

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

and

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

. He was editor of

The Botany of Iceland ''The Botany of Iceland'' is a five-volume classic scientific work on flora and vegetation of Iceland. It includes fungi, lichen, algae, bryophytes, and vascular plants. History It was published 1912 to 1949 and funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. ...

from vol. 3 part 2.

Selected scientific works

* Grøntved, J. (1927) Formationsstatistiske Undersøgelser paa nogle danske Overdrev.

Botanisk Tidsskrift ''Botanisk Tidsskrift'' (standard abbreviation ''Bot. Tidsskr.'') was a Danish mixed scientific and amateur journal concerning botany, issued in Copenhagen by the Danish Botanical Society. It was published from 1866 to 1980, when it fused with ...

40: 1-71. Used Raunkiær's quantitative method to describe grassland vegetation. The data were later used by

Thorvald Sørensen Thorvald (Thorwald) Julius Sørensen (4 July 1902 – 21 June 1973) was a Danish botanist and evolutionary biologist. Biography Sørensen was professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University 1953–1955 and at the University of C ...

in developing his '' quotient of similarity''. * Grøntved, J. (1927) Die Flora der Insel Wormsö - Ein Beitrag zur Flora Estlands.

Dansk Botanisk Arkiv ''Dansk Botanisk Arkiv'' was a Danish scientific journal or monograph series concerning botany, issued by the Danish Botanical Society. It was published from 1913 to 1980. Articles were written in Danish, German, English and French. The synonym ...

5 (4). * Grøntved, J. (1927) Die Flora der Insel

Runö Ruhnu (; ; ) is an Estonian island in the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea. Its territory of is administratively part of Saare County, Saare ''maakond'' (county). Ruhnu lies geographically closer to the coast of Courland on the mainland of Latvia ...

. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 23: 399–460. * Ostenfeld, C.H. & Grøntved, Johs. (1934) The Flora of

and the Færoes. Copenhagen. * Grøntved, J. (1939) Polygonaceernes Udbredelse i Danmark he distribution in Denmark of Polygonaceae

45: 10–58. * Grøntved, J. & Sørensen, T. (1941) Nøgle til bestemmelse af danske græsser i blomsterløs tilstand etermination key to vegetative grasses in Denmark Munksgaard, København. * Grøntved, Johs. (1942) The pteridophyta and spermatophyta of Iceland.

, edited by Johannes Grøntved, Ove Paulsen and

. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen; Vol. 4, Part 1, pp. 1–427. 1942. * Grøntved, J. (1954) Typhaceernes og Sparganiaceernes udbredelse i Danmark he distribution in Denmark of Typhaceae and Sparganiaceae

50: 209–238.

References

20th-century Danish botanists 1882 births 1956 deaths Botanists active in the Arctic {{denmark-botanist-stub