Henrik Viktor Rosendahl (12 December 1855,

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– 11 August 1918,

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, was a Swedish physician,

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and

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 ...

. After Rosendahl qualified to practice medicine in 1886, he became a

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(graduate with a research doctorate) and

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at the

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in 1894. He was a

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in pharmacology and

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from 1895 to 1896. At the Pharmaceutical Institute in Stockholm, he was a lecturer from 1895 to 1901, a professor extraordinarius from 1901 to 1911, and a

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and director of the Pharmaceutical Institute from 1911 until his death in 1918. (The Pharmaceutical Institute was started in 1837 and was merged into Uppsala University in 1968.) Rosendahl's writings deal with pharmacology, pharmacognosy, and related areas of research, such as ''Farmakologiska undersökningar rörande Aconitum septentrionale'' (Pharmacological studies concerning ''

Aconitum septentrionale ''Aconitum lycoctonum'' (wolf's-bane or northern wolf's-bane) is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Aconitum'', of the family Ranunculaceae, native to much of Europe and northern Asia.Flora Europaea''Aconitum lycoctonum''/ref> It is fou ...

''; 1893, later translated into German), ''Järnets verkningssätt inom organismen'' (The mode of action of iron in the organism, 1894), ''Kopparns fysiologiska betydelse för växt- och djurriket, dess giftverkan och terapeutiska användning'' (The physiological significance of copper for the plant and animal kingdom, its toxicity and therapeutic use, 1895), ''Analys af bröd från vikingatiden'' (Analysis of bread from the Viking Age, 1911), etc. As a botanist, he focused on cultivation and study of the

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and wrote about native Swedish species in ''Bidrag till Sveriges ormbunksflora'' (Contributions to the Swedish flora, part 1, 1909; part 2, 1913). He was also the author of two textbooks for higher education, ''Lärobok i farmakognosi'' (Textbook of pharmacognosy, 1897) and ''Lärobok i botanik'' (Textbook of botany, 1903). From 1914 he was a member of the permanent

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committee of the Pharmaceutical Institute. His grave is in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosendahl, Henrik Viktor 1855 births 1918 deaths Karolinska Institute alumni Lund University alumni People from Filipstad Plant collectors Swedish pharmacologists 19th-century Swedish botanists Academic staff of Uppsala University Burials at Norra begravningsplatsen