Peter Schousboe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peter Schousboe

Danish botanist

Date of Birth: 17-Aug-1766

Place of Birth: Rønne, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 26-Feb-1832

Profession: botanist, explorer

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Peter Schousboe, more fully Peter (or Peder) Kofod Ancher (or Anker) Schousboe (1766–1832) was a Danish botanist.
He was born in 1766 in Rønne, Denmark, and died in 1832 in Tangier, Morocco, having served as Danish consul general in Tangier from 1800 onwards.
He conducted a botanical expedition in Spain and Morocco during the years 1791-93.
Among the plants that he was the first to describe was the popular garden flower Salvia interrupta; the bushwillow genus Schousboea (now considered a synonym of Combretum) was named in his honour.