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Professor Dr. Arne Strid (born March 7, 1943 in Kristianstad, Sweden) is a Swede prominent botanist and expert on Greek flora.
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Biography
He studied botany, chemistry and genetics in the University of Lund and graduated in 1970. His doctorate was about an experimental study for the differentiation and evolution of a group of plants (Nigella arvensis complex) in the Aegean archipelago (Supervisor: Prof. Hans Runemark) for which he also won the American prize "Jesse M. Greenman" for the best dissertation of scientific classification of plants that year.
He was Professor of Botany (1973-2001) at the University of Copenhagen and visiting Professor at the University of Patras, Greece (1997-1998). He was Director of the Gothenburg Botanical Garden and the Natural History Museum of Göteborg (2001-2008). From 2011 he is Emeritus Prof. at the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum and from 2015 at the University of Patras, Greece. He is also Emeritus Prof. at the University of Lund and the University of Copenhagen.
Besides Greece, Arne Strid has worked and named new plant species in Turkey, Australia and South Africa.
Family
He is married to Barbro Strid and they have two daughters.
Work
Eponymy
The plant taxa Dichoropetalum stridii (Hartvig) Pimenov & Kljuykov, Onosma stridii Teppner, Sagina stridii Kit Tan, Zarkos & Christodoulou, Crocus biflorus subsp. stridii (Papan. & Zacharof) B. Mathew, Astragalus stridii Kit Tan are named after him.