K. J. V. Steenstrup

Knud John Vogelius Steenstrup ( born September 7, 1842 in Høstemark Mill in Aalborg Amt, † May 6, 1913 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish geologist and explorer Greenland.

Steenstrup was the nephew of zoologists Iapetus Steenstrup. He made in 1863 a degree in pharmacy and was from 1866 assistant at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen. He remained there until 1889, when he was the Danish State Geologist in the state recording.

He made nine trips to Greenland, lasting up to two and a half years. There he collected among other plant fossils from the Miocene of North West Greenland, by Oswald Heer ( Flora fossilis arctica) have been processed. He showed that iron block deposits that Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld found on Disko Island and held for meteorites that originated in truth in the basalt. Much of his collection Greenland was lost in a fire at Christiansborg Palace in 1884.

He also examined the morphology of dunes in Denmark.

He was an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1906 he became an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen in 1902 and member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. From 1896 he was a member of the scientific committee for Greenland.