Mycologists

Adam Afzelius ( 1750- 1837) was a Swedish botanist. Afzelius was born at Larv in Westrogothia in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany. From 1792 he spent some years on the west coast of Africa, and in 1797-1798 acted as secretary of the Swedish embassy in London. Returning to Sweden, he again took up his position as botanices demonstrator at Uppsala, and was in 1802 elected president of the "Zoophytolithic Society" (later called the Linnaean Institute). In 1812, he became professor of materia medica at the university. He died in Uppsala in 1837. In addition to various botanical writings, he published the autobiography of Carolus Linnaeus in 1823. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adam Afzelius"

André Michaux ( 8 March, 1746 – probably 11 October, 1803) was a French botanist and explorer. ...more on Wikipedia about "André Michaux"

Heinrich Anton de Bary ( January 26, 1831 - January 19, 1888) was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist ( fungal systematics and physiology). He is considered a founding father of plant pathology ( phytopathology). ...more on Wikipedia about "Anton de Bary"

Augustin Pyrame de Candolle ( February 4, 1778 - September 9, 1841) was a Swiss botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Augustin Pyrame de Candolle"

(Augustin Saint-Hilaire) The works by which he is best known are the Flora Brasiliae Meridionalis in three volumes (1825-1832), published in conjunction with A. de Jussieu, and J. Cambessdes; Histoire des Plantes les plus Remarquables du Brésil et de Paraguay (1824), Plantes Usuélles des Brésiliens (1827-1828), also in conjunction with De Jussieu and Cambessdes; and Voyage Dans le District des Diamants et sur le littoral du Brésil, in two volumes (1833). His Leçons de Botanique, Comprénant Principalement la Morphologie Végetale (1840), was a comprehensive exposition of botanical morphology and of its application to systematic botany. He died at Orleans on September 3rd 1853. ...more on Wikipedia about "Augustin Saint-Hilaire"

Carl Adolph Agardh ( January 13, 1785, Bostad, Sweden - January 28, 1859, Carlstad) was a Swedish botanist specializing in algae and was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Adolph Agardh"

Carl Erich Correns ( September 10, 1864, in Munich - February 14, 1933) was a German botanist and geneticist, who is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject, which he achieved simultaneously but independent of the biologists Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg and Hugo de Vries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Correns"

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ( April 17, 1794– December 13, 1868) was a German botanist and explorer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius"

Carl Ludwig Blume ( 29 June 1789 - 3 February 1862) was a German- Dutch botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Ludwig Blume"

Carl Ludwig Willdenow ( August 22, 1765 - July 10, 1812) was a German botanist and pharmacist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Ludwig Willdenow"

Carl Peter Thunberg ( November 11, 1743– August 8, 1828) was a Swedish naturalist. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus". ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Peter Thunberg"

Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus ( May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), the name with which his publications were signed, was a Swedish botanist and physician who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. He is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology (see History of ecology). ...more on Wikipedia about "Carolus Linnaeus"

Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius ( Arras, February 19, 1526 - Leiden April 4, 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was the Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists. He studied at Montpellier with the famous medical professor Guillaume Rondelet, though he never practiced medicine. In 1573 he was appointed prefect of the imperial medical garden in Vienna by Maximilian II and made Gentleman of the Imperial Chamber, but he was discharged from the imperial court shortly after the accession of Rudolf II. After leaving Vienna in the late 1580s he established himself in Frankfurt am Main, before his appointment as professor at the University of Leiden in 1594. He helped create one of the earliest formal botanical garden of Europe at Leyden, the Hortus Academicus, and his detailed planting lists have made it possible to recreate his garden near where it originally lay. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles de l'Écluse"

Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré ( September 4, 1789 - January 16, 1854) was a French botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré" Pure http://www.shortopedia.com. Pure Information Power. shortopedia

Christian Ehrenfried Weigel ( 24 May 1748 in Stralsund – 8 August 1831 in Greifswald) was a German scientist and -- beginning in 1774 -- a professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Botany, and Mineralogy at the Universität von Greifswald. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian Ehrenfried Weigel"

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck ( February 14, 1776 - March 16, 1858) was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species (almost as many as Linnaeus himself). His last official act as president of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina was to admit Charles Darwin as a member. He was the author of numerous monographs on botany and zoology. His best-known works deal with fungi. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck"

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ( April 19, 1795 – June 27, 1876), German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg"

Christian Hendrik Persoon ( February 1, 1761 - November 16, 1836) was a mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. He was influenced by Elias Magnus Fries. Persoon was born in South Africa, of Dutch and German descent. He died in poverty in Paris. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian Hendrik Persoon"

Churchill Babington ( 11th March, 1821– 12 January, 1889) was an English classical scholar and archaeologist, born at Roecliffe Manor, in Leicestershire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Churchill Babington"

Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen (or Baron Constantin von Ettingshausen) ( June 16, 1826 – February 1, 1897) was an Austrian geologist and botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Constantin von Ettingshausen"

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz ( October 22 1783- September 18 1840) was a nineteenth-century polymath who led a chaotic life. ...more on Wikipedia about "Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz"

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David Don ( 21 December 1799 - 15 December 1841) was an English botanist, Professor of Botany at King's College London from 1836– 1841, and librarian at the Linnean Society of London from 1822– 1841. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Don"

Diederich von Schlechtendal ( 27 November 1794 - 12 October 1866) was a German botanist. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal"

Eduard Friedrich Poeppig ( July 16, 1798 - September 4, 1868) was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer. The standard botanical author abbreviation Poepp. is applied to species he described. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eduard Friedrich Poeppig"

Edward Tuckerman ( December 7, 1817 - March 15, 1886) was a botanist and professor from Boston, Massachusetts who made significant contributions to the study of lichens and other alpine plants. The majority of his collecting was done on the slopes of Mount Washington in the White Mountains. Tuckerman Ravine was named in his honor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Tuckerman"

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