Axel Gudbrand Blytt

Encyclopedia : A : AX : AXE : Axel Gudbrand Blytt

Axel Gudbrand Blytt (1843-1898) was a Norwegian botanist. His father was M.N. Blytt also a botanist. Axel Blytt worked at the Christiania Herbarium at the University of Oslo from 1865, first as a conservator, then, from 1880, as a professor. Based partly on his father's work, he published in the 1870s the book Essay on the Immigration of the Norwegian Flora during Alternating Rainy and Dry Periods. He is today best known for develloping the Blytt-Sernander theory of climatic change. His work was read by, and influenced, Charles Darwin.

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.