death_date death_place work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date known_for image article_title name alma_mater
03 april 1898 copenhagen university of copenhagen Ødstedgård near vejle , denmark danish botany 20 march 1818 flora a flora of denmark danica , prodromus florae hispanicae and four editions lange_johan . jpg johan lange
 johan lange university of copenhagen
johan lange

johan martin christian lange -lrb- 3 .
april 1818 - 20 .
march 1898 -rrb- was a prominent danish botanist .
he held the post of librarian at the botanical library of the university of copenhagen from 1851 to 1858 .
he was director of the botanical garden there from 1856 to 1876 , the reader of botany at the danish technical university from 1857 to 1862 , and reader of botany at the royal veterinary and agricultural college from 1858 to 1893 , achieving full professor standing in 1892 .
he began editing the flora danica in 1858 , and was its last editor .
together with japetus steenstrup , johan lange was the publisher of flora danica fasc .
44 -lrb- 1858 -rrb- .
thereafter , he edited alone fasc .
45-51 -lrb- 1861 -- 83 -rrb- and supplement vols 2-3 -lrb- 1865 -- 74 -rrb- , in total 600 plates .
after having finished the publication of flora danica , he issued `` nomenclator floræ danicæ '' in 1887 - a volume indexing all planches in flora danica alphabetically , systematically and chronologically .
he travelled throughout europe , completing extensive studies on the flora of denmark , greenland and other european countries , especially spain .
-lrb- willkomm & lange , prodromus florae hispanicae , 1861 -- 80 -rrb- .
he expanded on the classification developed by linnaeus , writing `` plantenavne og navngivningsregler -lrb- plant-names and rules for name-giving -rrb- '' which was influential in developing the code of botanical nomenclature , the system in use today .
charles darwin borrowed a book written by lange , which he failed to return in a timely manner as mentioned by darwin in his correspondence .
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