Background
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 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 1791-1793. Among the plants that he was the first to describe was the popular garden flower Salvia interrupta. The bushwillow genus Schousboea (now considered a synonym of Combretum) was named in his honour.