{{Short description|Danish-Norwegian botanist (1749–1804)}} {{infobox scientist |name = Martin Henrichsen Vahl<ref>[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=28125-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditSimplePlantNameSearch.do%3Ffind_wholeName%3DSalvia%2Btiliifolia%26output_format%3Dnormal International Plant Names Index]</ref> |image = Martin Vahl.jpg |birth_date = {{birth date|1749|10|10|df=y}} |birth_place = Bergen, Norway |death_date = {{death date and age|1804|12|24|1749|10|10|df=y}} |death_place = Copenhagen, Denmark |occupation = Botanist and zoologist |author_abbrev_bot = '''Vahl''' }}

'''Martin Henrichsen Vahl''' (10 October 1749 – 24 December 1804) was a Danish-Norwegian botanist, herbalist and zoologist.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://nhm2.uio.no/botanisk/nbf/blyttia/blyttia_pdf/Blyttia_199902_skjermkvalitet_hele.pdf|title= Martin Vahl (1749-1804) – den første norske botanikkprofessor|publisher = Blyttia Norsk Botanisk Forenings Tidsskrift, volume 57, page 53 |author= Per M. Jørgensen|date=1999|access-date= January 1, 2017 }}</ref>

==Biography== Martin Vahl was born in Bergen, Norway and attended Bergen Cathedral School. He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen and at Uppsala University under Carl Linnaeus. He edited ''Flora Danica'' fasc. XVI-XXI (1787–1799), ''Symbolæ Botanicæ'' I-III (1790–1794), ''Eclogæ Americanæ'' I-IV (1796–1807) and ''Enumeratio Plantarum'' I-II (1804–1805). He lectured at the University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden from 1779 to 1782.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Vahl made several research trips in Europe and North Africa between 1783 and 1788. He became professor at the Society for Natural History at the University of Copenhagen in 1786 and was a full professor of botany from 1801 to his death. In 1792, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He died in Copenhagen, Denmark at age 55. His son Jens Vahl also became a botanist.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

==Authority name== This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation '''<span class="vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="nickname">Vahl</span></span></span>''' when citing a botanical name.<ref>{{cite book|last = Brummitt|first = R. K.|author2=C. E. Powell|title = Authors of Plant Names |publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |year = 1992 |isbn = 1-84246-085-4}}</ref>

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==Other sources== * Christensen, Carl (1932) Martin Vahl, pp.&nbsp;85–88 in: Meisen, V. Prominent Danish Scientists through the Ages. University Library of Copenhagen 450th Anniversary. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen.

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071113032753/http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/title/b1190222x Facsimile of ''Enumeratio plantarum'', Hauniae, 1805–1806.]

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