Ove Christian Dahl (29 January 186217 September 1940) was a Norwegian botanist. He was born in

Orkdal Municipality Orkdal is a List of former municipalities of Norway, former municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020 when it joined Orkland Municipality. It was part of the O ...

. He graduated in philology from the University of Kristiania in 1886, and then worked as a teacher. His interests eventually turned towards

botany 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 ...

, and he was appointed at the Botanical Museum in Kristiania from 1893 to 1922, the first years as assistant to professor Axel Blytt. He is particularly known for his plant geographical works, and also for completing Blytt's Norwegian flora in 1906. This flora was the only such work in Norway until the 1940s. His later years were tragic, and he spent his last eighteen years at a psychiatric institution.

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1862 births 1940 deaths People from Orkdal 19th-century Norwegian botanists University of Oslo alumni 20th-century Norwegian botanists {{Norway-academic-bio-stub