Famous People with Name Christen

Christen Sørensen Longomontanus            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen Sørensen Longomontanus: was a Danish astronomer.He visited Frauenburg, where Copernicus had made his observations, took a masters degree at Rostock, and at Copenhagen found a patron in Christian Friis, chancellor of Denmark, who employed him in his household. Appointed in 1603 rector of the school of Viborg, he was elected two years later to a professorship in the University of Copenhagen, and his promotion to the chair of mathematics ensued in 1607. This post he held till his death.Longomontanus was not an advanced thinker. He adhered to Tycho's erroneous views about refraction, believed that comets were messengers of evil, and imagined that he had squared the circle. He found that the circle whose diameter is 43 has for its circumference the square root of 18252 which gives 3.14185 ... for the value of p. John Pell and others tried in vain to convince him of his error

Christen Christensen Raunkiær            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen Christensen Raunkiær: was a Danish botanist, who was a pioneer of plant ecology. He is mainly remembered for his scheme of plant strategies to survive an unfavourable season ("life forms") and his demonstration that the relative abundance of strategies in floras largely corresponded to the Earth's climatic zones. This scheme, the Raunkiær system, is still widely used today and may be seen as a precursor of modern plant strategy schemes, e.g. J. Philip Grime's CSR system.

Christen Dalsgaard            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen Dalsgaard: Danish painter, was born on the Krabbesholm estate on the fjord near Skive, and was son of the estate owner, Jens Dalsgaard.Later that year he traveled to Copenhagen and began his art studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in October 1841. In December 1841 he began private studies with painter Martinus Rørbye. These last until 1847.

Christen Schiellerup Købke            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen Schiellerup Købke: Danish painter, was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke, a baker, and his wife Cecilie Margrete. He was one of 11 children. Købke is one of the best known artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

Christen August Hesselbo            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen August Hesselbo: was a Danish pharmaceutical botanist and bryologist.The standard author abbreviation Hesselbo is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]