[1] He was born in Assens and began studies at the University of Copenhagen in 1660.
[2] This work contains an alphabetic list of plant species and their places of occurrence in the crown lands of the Danish king, mainly from Zealand, but also from Jutland and Slesvig.
Some of the entries in the Viridarium Danicum are known to have been contributed by Henrik Gerner who was then the priest in Birkerød.
According to some sources, that manuscript was found in the library of Albrecht von Haller.
The plant genus Kyllinga (Cyperaceae) was named in his honour by botanist Christen Friis Rottbøll.