Ferdinand Didrichsen

{{Short description|Danish botanist and physicist (1814–1887)}}

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Didrik Ferdinand Didrichsen (3 July 1814 in Copenhagen – 19 March 1887 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish botanist and physicist.

He participated as botanist in the first Galathea Expedition (1845—1847). In 1851, he began work as a librarian at the botanical gardens in Copenhagen. From 1856 to 1875 he was an associate professor of botany.[https://books.google.com/books?id=DVhMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110 Botaniska Notiser] translated biography In 1875, Didrichsen succeeded Anders Sandøe Ørsted as professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen and director of the botanic garden, whereby the already then much better known Eugen Warming was passed over. After Didrichsen's retirement in 1885, Warming succeeded him in both positions.

As a taxonomist, he described the botanical genera Mostuea, Myriogomphus, Pogonophyllum and Stenonia, as well as numerous plant species. Many of these findings were published in the Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn.[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Didr.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI] List of taxa described & co-described by Didrichsen. Taxa with the specific epithet of didrichsenii are named in his honor.[http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/g00113775?history=true JSTOR Global Plants] Type of Mastigobryum didrichsenii Steph.