Peter Schousboe
Deceased Person
1766 – 1832
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Who was Peter Schousboe?
Peter Schousboe, more fully Peter Kofod Ancher Schousboe was a Danish botanist. He was born in 1766 in Rønne, Denmark, and died in 1832 in Tangier, Morocco, having served as Danish consul general in Tangier from 1800 onwards. He conducted a botanical expedition in Spain and Morocco during the years 1791-93. Among the plants that he was the first to describe was the popular garden flower Salvia interrupta; the bushwillow genus Schousboea was named in his honour.
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