Editing Emil Christian Hansen (section)

==Early life and education==
Hansen was born in [[Ribe]] to Joseph Christian Hansen, a house-painter, and his wife Ane Catherina Dyhre.<ref name="Klocker1910">{{Cite book| publisher = The Carlsberg Foundation| pages = 168-189 | editor-last1 = Holter | editor-first1 = H. | editor-last2 = Moller | editor-first2 = K. Max | last = Klöcker| first = Albert| title = The Carlsberg Laboratory, 1876/1976| chapter = Emil Christian Hansen 1842-1909| location = Copenhagen| date = 1976| orig-date=Written in 1910 | url = https://archive.org/details/carlsberglaborat0000unse/page/168/mode/2up}}</ref>  

Between 1874 and 1875 he edited and distributed an mycological [[exsiccata]] work, namely ''Fungorum fimicolorum exempl. exsiccati'', with 350 numbered specimen units.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fungorum fimicolorum exempl. exsiccati: IndExs ExsiccataID=1871843967 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1871843967 |access-date=4 August 2024}}</ref> He was awarded a gold medal in 1876 for an essay on [[fungi]], titled ''De danske Gjødningssvampe''.<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901847.html Encyclopedia.com] (biography)</ref>  During his days as a university student in [[Copenhagen]], he worked as an unpaid assistant to [[zoologist]] [[Japetus Steenstrup]] (1813–1897).