Johannes Lid
Norwegian botanist
Born on: January 11, 1886Died on: September 29, 1971
Aged: 85 years 261 days (1028 months)
Birth Sign: Capricorn
Johannes Lid was a Norwegian botanist. He was born in Voss Municipality, and he married the illustrator Dagny Tande Lid in 1936.
He is particularly known for his works on Scandinavian flora, and for his widely used handbook to plants Norsk flora, with illustrations by his wife Dagny Tande Lid.
He co-founded and chaired the Norwegian Botanical Association from 1935 to 1942. From 1948 onward he served as a curator at the Botanical Museum in Oslo.
After his retirement in 1956, he carried out in-depth studies of the flora of the Canary Islands. He became a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1945 and received the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1956.
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