Ove Ramel Sehested

Ove Ram[m]el Sehested (13 March 1757 – 21 October 1838) was a Norwegian-Danish economist, administrator, and a collector of natural history specimens.

Sehested was born in Nannestad, Norway to Major General Frantz Vilhelm and Anne Barbara Løvenskiold.

After receiving his law degree, he travelled through Europe and returned to join the college of economics and commerce and was involved in shaping Danish trade and industrial policy, working along with Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann.

[1] Sehested was interested in natural history from teenage and went on collecting trips with Tønder Lund, together they visited J. C. Fabricius in Kiel in 1776 and Sir Joseph Banks in England.

Sehested's private insect collection was referred to by Fabricius as "Mus.