> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 200](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189671) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7579-1) LSID 7579-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21522893) QID Q21522893 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Petit, Emil Charles Nicolai \[Nicolai Emil Charles\] (1817-1893), Danish botanist and physician; one of the founders of "Det Naturhistoriske Selskab" (later Botanisk Forening); schoolteacher from 1843-1848; military physician 1841-1852; practicing physician 1848-1852; id. in Fredensborg 1852-1873; living at Copenhagen from 1878. **Abbreviated name**: *Petit, E.* \[standard form in IPNI: *E.Petit*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection C|C]] (large herbarium left to Bot. Forening); some further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection GE|GE]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. – Christensen (1925) mentions a "Samling af Danmarks officinelle Planter. I.-15. Hefte. – Kbh. Fol. " which he too had not seen. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 75; BL 2: 54, 140, 702;; Christiansen p. 318 \[index\]; CSP 10: 1044, 17: 821; Kew 4: 284-285; Morren ed. 10, p. 48; PFC 1: xlix, 3(1): x. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Tidsskr. 19: xix: 2894 (left foreign part of herb. to C, Danish and moss herb. to Botanisk Forening; left also a fund for botanical travelling). - Christensen, C., Danske bot. litt. 1880-1911: 6-7. 1913 (bibl., portr.); Danske bot. hist. - 1: 429-431, 590-591, 882 (portr.), 2: 261-262. 1925. - Fischer-Benzon, R.D.J. von, *in* P. Prahl, Krit. Fl. Schlesw.-Holst. 2: 46. 1890. - Warming, E., Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 181-182. 1881 (bibl.); 19: 244-254. 1895 (obit., portr., brief bibl., b. 2 Feb 1817, d. 7 Nov 1893). #### Composite works See A.S. Örstedt, *Reg. mar.*, TL-2/7014, Petit respondens.