Julius Schaeffer ( German: Julius Schäffer ; June 3, 1882 , Markgröningen - October 21, 1944 , Weilheim ) - German botanist and mycologist . Known for his contribution to the systematics of agaric mushrooms and the discovery of the reaction used in chemical testing of fungi, later named after him.
| Julius Schaeffer | |
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| him. Julius Schäffer | |
| Date of Birth | June 3, 1882 |
| Place of Birth | Markgröningen , German Empire |
| Date of death | October 21, 1944 (62 years old) |
| A place of death | Weilheim (Upper Bavaria) , Germany |
| A country |  German Empire →  Germany →  Germany |
| Scientific field | mycology |
| Taxonomy of wildlife | |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation “ Jul.Schäff. " . Personal page on IPNI website |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Types of mushrooms named in honor of J. Schaeffer
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Biography
Julius Schaeffer was born on June 3, 1882 in the city of Markgröningen in Germany. He was the eldest of four children in the family. In 1900, he graduated from the University of Stuttgart . From 1906 to 1908 he taught theology , German , geography and natural history in Ilsenburg . On December 28, 1912, Julius married Liesel Schaeffer.
Schaeffer invented a reagent used to identify species of mushrooms from the Champignon genus: species that are stained red-orange in Scheffer's reagent are included in the Flavescentes section. In 1933, Schaeffer published a monograph on russula in Central Europe . In 1939, Schaeffer and his family moved to Diessen am Ammersee , where he began working on the taxonomy of the Gossamer Web , met Meinhard Moser .
In the fall of 1944, Schaeffer was very poisoned after eating a large number of pigs , which at that time were considered good edible mushrooms. He started vomiting , diarrhea and fever . After 17 days, on October 21 , Schaeffer died in a hospital in Weilheim from acute renal failure [1] [2] .
Species of mushrooms named after J. Schaeffer
- Agaricus schaefferianus Hlavácek 1987, nom. inval. [ syn. Agaricus urinascens (Jul.Schäff. & FHMøller ) Singer 1951 ]
- Cortinarius schaefferi MMMoser 1951, nom. illeg. [ syn. Cortinarius schaefferanus (MMMoser) MMMoser 1967 ]
- Russula schaefferi Kärcher 1996
- Russula schaefferiana Niolle 1943
- Russula schaefferina Rawla & Sarwal 1983
Notes
- ↑ Lamaison, Jean-Louis; Polese, Jean-Marie. The Great Encyclopedia of Mushrooms. - Cologne, Germany: Könemann, 2005 .-- P. 35. - ISBN 3-8331-1239-5 .
- ↑ Beuchat, Larry R. Food and Beverage Mycology . - New York, New York: Springer, 1987 .-- P. 394. - ISBN 0-442-21084-1 .
Literature
- H. Dörfelt, G. Jetschke Wörterbuch der Mykologie. Spektrum, Heidelberg und Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0920-9
- H. Dörfelt, H. Heklau Die Geschichte der Mykologie. Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1998, ISBN 3-927654-44-2
- L. Schäffer Julius Schäffer als Mensch, als Freund der Jugend, als Pädagoge, als Pilzforscher. Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde, Heft 3/4, 1967, P. 49