Christen Friis Rottbøll

Christen Friis Rottbøll (3 March 1727, at Hørbygård, Denmark – 15 June 1797, in Copenhagen) was a Danish physician and botanist: He was a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus.

[2] Rottbøll studied at the University of Copenhagen, first theology, then medicine, in which he took his doctorate degree in 1755 (De morbis deuteropathicis seu Sympathier).

From 1761, he was executive at the Botanic Garden in Copenhagen, and succeeded Georg Christian Oeder as its director in 1770.

[2] As a medical doctor, he studied smallpox and reformed the vaccination programme that had run in Copenhagen since 1755.

[3] As a botanist, Rottbøll gave out the first comprehensive list of the Flora of Greenland,[4] he published descriptions of plants from the Danish colonies in India[5] collected by Johann Gerhard König, and similarly of plants from Suriname collected by Daniel Rolander.