Famous People with Name Christen

Christen Christensen Raunkiær            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen Christensen Raunkiær: was a Danish botanist, who was a pioneer of plant ecology. He is mainly remembered for his scheme of plant strategies to survive an unfavourable season ("life forms") and his demonstration that the relative abundance of strategies in floras largely corresponded to the Earth's climatic zones. This scheme, the Raunkiær system, is still widely used today and may be seen as a precursor of modern plant strategy schemes, e.g. J. Philip Grime's CSR system.

Christen Dalsgaard            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen Dalsgaard: Danish painter, was born on the Krabbesholm estate on the fjord near Skive, and was son of the estate owner, Jens Dalsgaard.Later that year he traveled to Copenhagen and began his art studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in October 1841. In December 1841 he began private studies with painter Martinus Rørbye. These last until 1847.

Christen Schiellerup Købke            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen Schiellerup Købke: Danish painter, was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke, a baker, and his wife Cecilie Margrete. He was one of 11 children. Købke is one of the best known artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

Christen August Hesselbo            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen August Hesselbo: was a Danish pharmaceutical botanist and bryologist.The standard author abbreviation Hesselbo is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

Christen Friis Rottbøll            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen Friis Rottbøll: was a Danish physician and botanist and pupil of Carolus Linnaeus.He studied at the University of Copenhagen, first theology, then medicine, in which in took his doctorate degree in 1755 (De morbis deuteropathicis seu Sympathier). He then travelled abroad 1757-1761 to further his studies of medicine, and to study chemistry and botany - the latter subject at Uppsala University with Linnaeus. From 1761, he was executive at the Botanic Garden in Copenhagen, and succeeded Georg Christian Oeder as its director i 1770. He was appointed professor at the Chair of Medicine in 1776 and received the title of "royal adviser" (konferensråd) in 1784.