Olav Johan Sopp

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Olav Johan Sopp
Sopp in 1922
Born
Johan Oluf Olsen

(1860-10-06)6 October 1860
Hamar, Norway
Died14 August 1931(1931-08-14) (aged 70)
NationalityNorwegian
Occupationmycologist
Awards

Olav Johan Sopp (né Johan Oluf Olsen; 6 October 1860 – 14 August 1931) was a Norwegian

plantae nor animalia, but to a third kingdom. He also contributed to the development of the Norwegian dairy and brewery
industry.

Personal life

Sopp was born in Hamar as the son of tanner Johannes Bakke Olsen and Bertha Marie Omdahl. He was married to Ingeborg Marie Finckenhagen from 1889 to 1893, and to Caroline Louise Eugenie Ihlen from 1894. From the late 1880s he used the name Olav Johan-Olsen, to avoid name confusion with another person. In 1907 he changed his name to Sopp (meaning "mushroom" in Norwegian).[1] According to his own statement he had been nicknamed "Sop-Olsen" already as a young schoolboy.[2] His daughter was married to politician Ole Colbjørnsen.[3]

Career

After

doctoral thesis, Om sop paa levende jordbund.[1] From 1887 to 1890 he managed the physiological laboratories at the brewer Ringnes in Oslo. He also managed a factory at Toten, which produced condensed milk.[4]

In 1888 he discovered a method to produce condensed milk without sugar. He designed the items required for production, and is credited for being the founder of industrial milk conservation in Norway. The product "Viking Milk" was patented and introduced by him in 1891. The factory at Toten was taken over by the Swiss company Henri Nestlé in 1897, while Sopp continued as technical and scientific manager until he retired in 1925.[1]

Sopp was the first to suggest classifying

plantae nor animalia, but to a third kingdom, already in his thesis Om sop paa levende jordbund from 1893,[2] and in a subsequent article in the periodical Nyt Tidsskrift.[1]

He was decorated as a Knight of the

Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1900.[1]

Botanist abbreviation

Because he changed his name during his career in botany, Sopp has two

Brummitt & Powell
author abbreviations:

The standard
author abbreviations Johan-Olsen and Sopp are used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Sandberg, Per-Øyvind. "Olav Johan Sopp". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
  2. ^ a b Jæger, Henrik, ed. (1896). "Videnskabernes literatur i det nittende aarhundrede". Illustreret norsk literaturhistorie (in Norwegian). Vol. 2. Kristiania: Hjalmar Biglers forlag. pp. 107–109.
  3. ^ Sandberg, Per-Øyvind. "Ole Colbjørnsen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  4. Store norske leksikon
    (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
  5. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index.
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