Arne Strid


Arne Strid is a Swedish prominent botanist and expert on Greek flora.

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 in the Aegean archipelago 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 at the University of Copenhagen and visiting Professor at the University of Patras, Greece. He was Director of the Gothenburg Botanical Garden and the Natural History Museum of Göteborg. From 2011 he is Emeritus Prof. at the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, from 2015 at the University of Patras, Greece and from 2017 at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is also Emeritus Prof. at the University of Lund and the University of Copenhagen.
Besides Greece, Strid has worked and named new plant species in Turkey, Australia and South Africa.

Family

He is married to biologist Barbro Jende Strid and they have two daughters. Together Arne and Barbro Strid edited an annotated re-issue of the Flora Graeca.

Works

The plant taxa Dichoropetalum stridii Pimenov & Kljuykov, Onosma stridii Teppner, Sagina stridii Kit Tan, Zarkos & Christodoulou, Crocus biflorus subsp. stridii B. Mathew, Odontarrhena stridii and Astragalus stridii Kit Tan are named after him.