Frederik Michael Liebmann (10 October 1813 – 29 October 1856) was a Danish botanist. Liebmann studied botany at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

, although he never obtained a formal qualification. He went on study tours of Germany and

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before becoming lecturer at the Danish Royal Veterinary School in 1837. In 1840 he travelled to

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and

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; on his return in 1845 he was appointed Professor of Botany at the University of Copenhagen. He became Director of the university's Botanical Garden in 1852, a post he held until his death four years later. He was the editor of

Flora Danica ''Flora Danica'' is a comprehensive atlas of botany from the Age of Enlightenment, containing folio-sized pictures of all the wild plants native to Denmark, in the period from 1761 to 1883. History ''Flora Danica'' was proposed by G. C. Oede ...

and issued fasc. 41-43 (1845–1852) and Supplement vol. 1, a total of 240 plates.

Legacy

Liebmann is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Mexican snake, '' Chersodromus liebmanni''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Liebmann", p. 158).

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1813 births 1856 deaths 19th-century Danish botanists Botanists active in North America {{Denmark-botanist-stub