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Herman Theodor Holm was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugenius Warming and graduated 1880.
Career
He published over 150 papers reflecting his research which included his series Studies on the Cyperaceae and Medicinal Plants of North America. In 1882-1883, he participated in the expedition on board the Danish vessel Dijmphna (Dijmphna-expeditionen 1882-1883) to the territory between Russia and the North Pole during the First International Polar Year. The ship was icebound for a period in the Kara Sea.
He also explored the flora of West Greenland as assistant to Eugenius Warming on the Fylla expedition in 1884.
He emigrated to the United States., landing in New York on April 12, 1888. He soon was employed as assistant botanist by the United States. National Museum.
In 1893 when he received American citizenship. From 1893-1897, he was assistant pathologist with the United States Department of Agriculture (United States Department of Agriculture).
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in botany from the Catholic University of America in Washington District of Columbia in 1902.
He then moved to the countryside of Brookland, District of Columbia and later in Clinton, Maryland and did assistant work as a botanist for the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Department of Agriculture. Although a Lutheran, in 1932 he joined the faculty of the Catholic University of America, but died soon after.
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