Ernst Østrup


Ernst Vilhelm Østrup was a Danish botanist and phycologist, mainly working on diatoms.
In 1873 he received his cand. polyt. degree, and later worked as a schoolteacher in Copenhagen. His diatom research largely dealt with species found in Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, Faeroe Islands and Jan Mayen.

Selected scientific works

The diatom genus Oestrupia and the species Diploneis oestrupii, Surirella oestrupii and Navicula oestrupii are named for him.