Johannes Lid

Johannes Lid (11 January 1886 – 29 September 1971) was a Norwegian botanist.

He was born in Voss, and he married the illustrator Dagny Tande Lid in 1936.

From 1948 onward he served as a curator at the Botanical Museum in Oslo.

After his retirement in 1956, he carried out in-depth studies of the flora of the Canary Islands.

He became a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1945 and received the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1956.

The Lid House ( Lids hus ) containing the botanical museum and located in the University Botanical Garden at Tøyen , Oslo. [ 1 ]