Ove Vilhelm Paulsen (22 March 1874 – 29 April 1947) was a Danish

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Biography

Paulsen was born at

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, Denmark. He studied at the

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under professor

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(1841-1924). Paulsen was a keeper at the Botanical Museum of the

from 1905 to 1920, when he became professor of

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at the Pharmaceutical College in

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, a position he held until 1947. He studied the flora of

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, plankton of the

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and the flora of

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. He went on expeditions to Northern

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and Pamir as early as 1898–1899. During his travels through Pamir, he was accompanied by the Danish explorer

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(1865–1929). Ove Paulsen visited

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with the second International Phytogeographic Excursion from July to September 1913 and subsequently described the biome zonation from east to west in a paper.Paulsen, Ove (1915) Some remarks on the Desert Vegetation of America. The Plant World 18: 155-161. The plant species '' Salsola paulsenii'' is among the many plant taxa named for him.

Selected scientific works

* Børgesen, F. & Paulsen, O. (1898) Om Vegetationen paa de dansk-vestindiske Øer. København: Nordisk Forlag. 114 s.

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edition 1900
La végétation des Antilles Danoises
en francais par Mlle S.Eriksson. See notes under Børgesen. * Ostenfeld, C.H. & Ove Paulsen (1910-1911) Marine plankton from the East-Greenland Sea (W. of 6° W. Long, and N. of 73° 30’ N. Lat.): collected by the "Danmark-Expedition" 1906–1908.

Meddelelser om Grønland ''Meddelelser om Grønland'' ("''Communications on Greenland''") is a Danish scientific journal, scientific periodical which publishes scientific results from all fields of research on Greenland. It was established by Frederik Johnstrup and publi ...

bd. 43 (11). **I : List of diatoms and flagellates / by C.H. Ostenfeld. 1910 **II : Protozoa / by C.H. Ostenfeld. 1910 **III : Peridiniales / by Ove Paulsen. 1910 **IV : General remarks on the microplankton / by C.H. Ostenfeld and Ove Paulsen. 1911 * Paulsen, O. (1949) Observations on

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. (edited by J. Grøntved). Biologiske Skrifter /

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6 (4): 1-67.

References

Works on Ove Paulsen

Steemann Nielsen, E. (1949) Obituary in ''ICES Journal of Marine Science'' Vol. 16 (1): 14-15.
* Jessen, Knud (1947) Ove Vilhelm Paulsen 22. marts 1874 - 29. April 1947.

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 ...

vol. 48. {{DEFAULTSORT:Paulsen, Ove 20th-century Danish botanists Danish marine biologists Danish phycologists Botanists with author abbreviations Botanists active in the Arctic Botanists active in Central Asia Danish science writers Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen alumni 1947 deaths 1874 births People from Aarhus