Education
He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen from 1906 under professor Eugenius Warming, but never actually graduated.
He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen from 1906 under professor Eugenius Warming, but never actually graduated.
In 1909, Frits Heide revised Justice of the Peace Jacobsen’s translation of Charles Darwin"s On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Manitoba He also translated Darwin"s autobiography into Danish. Much later, in 1935, he finally published his own translation of the Origin of Species.
Heide was a prolific writer in Danish popular science, but also contributed with more purely scientific texts on plant biology, forest history, ethnobotany et cetera
He also served as a private teacher. From around 1920, he was as a consultant for the Dutch government in Java, still publishing botanic works in Danish, Dutch and English on the side.
He also founded and edited the journal Journal de Botanique Historique 1918-1921. (1915) Skovene omkring Ringsted i ældre Tider.
Tidsskrift for Skovvæsen 27B: 99-118.
(ed, 1917) Trojel HJ, Et Bidrag til Fyns Flora i det 18. Århundrede. Aarbog for Historisk Samfund for Odense og Assens Amter 4. årgang: 592-606. (1919) Ærø Skoves Historie.
Tidsskrift for Historisk Botanik 1: 73-88.
(1919) Midtsjælland i de gode, gamle Dage. 244 p. (1919) Historisk-botaniske Indsamlinger paa Refsnæson
Tidsskrift for Historisk Botanik 1: 244-249. (1919) Sejerø Skoves Historie.
Dansk Skovforenings Tidsskrift 10: 429-453.
(1919) Ringsted Klosters Godsarkiv. Fortid og Nutid 2: 156-163 (1917) Registratur over Svenstrup Godsarkiv (Københavns og Sorø Amter). København.