Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen
Hanna Marie Resvoll - Holmsen Hanna Resvoll - Holmsen ( born September 11, 1873 in Lom, † March 13, 1943 in Oslo) was a Norwegian botanist. Your botanical author abbreviation is " Resv. - spar. ".
Career
Hanna Marie Resvoll - Holmsen, was born as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Resvoll and Julie Martine, born Deichmann. When Hanna Maria was five years old, the family moved their residence from Lom to Oslo. Resvoll - Holmsen was frequently ill as a teenager, going to school after the age of 12 was interrupted. In 1902, shortly after her divorce from her first husband, she put her Abitur at a altsprachlichem school.
She then began studying the natural sciences. As a major in the discipline they chose botany. Particularly affected have the lectures of the geologist Amund Helland. In 1907 she participated in the North Country Expedition to Spitsbergen, which had been initiated by the Prince of Monaco. A year later, they conducted a separate expedition. The gained in the context of research trips knowledge of the flora of Spitsbergen, she published in French.
In 1910 she received her diploma. The following years were marked by numerous research trips. Your expeditions have taken her to the mountains of Norway, Switzerland, southern France and the Pyrenees. 1915 Hanna Marie Resvoll - Holmsen was granted a university scholarship. From 1921 until her retirement in 1938 she worked as a lecturer in plant geography.
She was first married to Hans DIESET, the marriage was divorced in 1901. In 1909 she married her brother Gunnar Holmsen ( 1880-1976 ), who was employed as a geologist with a government expert authority.
Scientific work
The scientific focus of Hanna Marie Resvoll - Holmsen lay on the field of plant geography. In particular, they explored here the mountain flora, with attention to the vegetation of the tree line. She wrote this, numerous ecological analyzes and presented his own observations; they moved as one of the first scientists in Norway zoom modern statistical methods for phytosociological analysis. Likewise, she sat with the first color photography as a means of documentation in botany.
Social commitment
Bredo Berntsen called Hanna in his biography as one of the first Norwegian green socks ( by bluestocking ). Her sister Thekla Susanne Ragnhild Resvoll was also a significant Norwegian botanist and for women's rights and conservation politically active.
Publications
- Les observations botaniques de la campagne de scientifique SAS le Prince Albert 1er de Monaco. La misión Isachsen au Spitzberg 1907 - 1910
- Observations botaniques - 1913
- Om betingelserne for Spitsbergens planteliv - 1920
- Om det østenfjeldske fjeldvegetationen i Norge - 1920
- Svalbard's flora - 1927
- Om betydningen av det uensartede i Våre skoger. Tidsskrift for Skogbruk - 1932