Jens Holmboe

Who was Jens Holmboe?

Jens Holmboe was a Norwegian botanist.

He was the oldest son of physician Michael Holmboe and his wife Eleonore Vogt. He had several brothers and sisters. His grandfather of the same name was a prominent politician.

He was hired as a curator at Bergen Museum in 1906, and became professor there in 1914. In 1925 he was appointed professor at the University of Oslo and manager of the University Botanical Garden. Among his notable publications were Planterester i norske Torvmyrer in 1903, Studies on the Vegetation of Cyprus in 1914, and the six-volume Våre ville planter, written with Torstein Lagerberg and published between 1937 and 1940. He was also editor-in-chief of the periodical Naturen between 1906 and 1925.