Janus Lauritz Andreas Kolderup Rosenvinge, generally cited as Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge (7 November 1858 – 1939) 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 ...

and phycologist. Kolderup Rosenvinge received his Ph.D. in 1888 from the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

. He was docent of botany at the polytechnic ( Polyteknisk Læreanstalt) from 1900; and a professor of botany at the

from 1916, focusing on spore plants . He undertook investigations of

algae Algae ( , ; : alga ) is an informal term for any organisms of a large and diverse group of photosynthesis, photosynthetic organisms that are not plants, and includes species from multiple distinct clades. Such organisms range from unicellular ...

in Danish waters and in the

North Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for ...

. 2 types of alga genus '' Rosenvingea'' and '' Rosenvingiella'' , which is a

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green algae The green algae (: green alga) are a group of chlorophyll-containing autotrophic eukaryotes consisting of the phylum Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister group that contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/ Streptophyta. The land plants ...

in the family

Prasiolaceae Prasiolaceae is a family (biology), family of green algae in the order Prasiolales. Members of this family are found in freshwater, terrestrial, and marine habitats. Algae in the family Prasiolaceae consist of thalli with blades a single cell th ...

, have been named in his honour.

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Danish phycologists Botanists with author abbreviations Botanists active in the Arctic 20th-century Danish botanists Danish marine biologists Danish scientists Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen alumni Rosenvinge family 1858 births 1939 deaths 19th-century Danish botanists {{Denmark-botanist-stub