Christen Smith

Christen Smith was an early 19thcentury Norwegian physician, economist and naturalist, particularly botanist. He died, onlyyears old during a dramatic expedition to the Congo River in 1816, leaving a wealth of botanical material.

Smith was born at Skoger in Drammen, Norway. He studied medicine and botany at the University of Copenhagen under Professor Martin Vahl. Together with Jens Wilken Hornemann, he traveled through large parts of Norway and carried out botanical investigations, collecting plants to be included in the plate work Flora Danica. Joakim Frederik Schouw and Morten Wormskjold were in the company for part of the trip. The party climbed several mountain tops in Jotunheimen, for some of which it was the first recorded ascent, e.g. Bitihorn 1811 and Hrteigen 1812.

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