The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, founded in 1856, was a veterinary and agricultural science university in Copenhagen, Denmark, up till its merger with University of Copenhagen in 2007.
Surrounding the buildings, designed by Gottlieb Bindesbøll, are the unique gardens which house more than 6,000 different plants and flowers.
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The Gardens of the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
167 years later, this picture was taken and brought into the ‘Flora Excursoria Hafniensis‘ series.
Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer
The series takes its part of departure in a book by the Danish Botanist Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer (born February 15th, 1813, Eveldrup; died June 10th, 1842, Copenhagen) published in 1838 at which point Drejer was 25 years old.
Flora Danica
From 1841 to 1842 Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer was the editor of ‘Flora Danica’, which he did not finish due to an untimely death caused by nicotine intoxication.
Drejer’s work on ‘Flora Danica’, which can be described as one of the comprehensive atlases of botany from the Age of Enlightenment, was published in 1843 in a collaboration with fellow botanists Joakim Frederik Schouw and Jens Vahl.
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