Fredrik Emil Volmar (Fredrik) Elfving
1854–1942
Finnish botanist and plant physiologist. Studied medicine at Helsinki, 1874–7; botany at Jena, 1878; Würzburg, 1879. PhD in botany, Helsinki, 1879; docent, 1881. Studied at Straßburg, 1881; at Copenhagen, Utrecht, and Paris, 1886–7. Professor of botany and director of the Botanical Institute, Helsinki, 1889–1926. While at Würzburg, demonstrated transverse geotropism of rhizomes, the subject of his doctoral dissertation.
Sources
Barnhart comp. 1965
Collander 1965, pp. 42–7
Bibliography
Barnhart, John Hendley, comp. 1965. Biographical notes upon botanists … maintained in the New York Botanical Garden Library. 3 vols. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall.
Collander, Runar. 1965. The history of botany in Finland, 1828–1918. Translated by David Barrett. Helsinki: [Finnish Society of Sciences].
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