Erich Heinz Benedix (1914 - 1983)
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Biography
Sources
Selected publications
Biography
1914 born in Dresden, Germany
1935 graduates from the Technical Hochschule in Dresden
1936 studies at Freiburg
1938 studies at the Friedrich Schiller University at Jena; makes collecting trips to Hiddensee in the Bavarian Alps, to the Carpathian mountains in the Ukraine, and to the High Tatra in Hungary
1945 crippled in the bombing of Dresden
1947 graduates from Jena, teaches free-lance at various German universities and technical institutes
Benedix published both technical and popular works on fungi.
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Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
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Selected Publications
Erich Heinz Benedix (1944) "Pilzgänge um Jena - eine mykogeographische Skizze aus Ostthüringen" (Fungus-journeys around Jena - a mycological sketch from East Thüringen) in Mitteilungen des Thüringschen Botanischen Vereins (Reports of the Thüringen Botanical Association) 51:1 pp. 255 - 317
Erich Heinz Benedix (1948 - 1950) Pilztabellen für jedermann (Mushroom-identification tables for everyone)Apparently this was a series, of which Benedix wrote volumes 1, 10, and 14.
Erich Heinz Benedix (1949) "Neue Jenaer Pilzfunde" (New Jena Mushroom-finder) in Mitteilungen des Thüringschen Botanischen Vereins (Reports of the Thüringen Botanical Association) 1:1 pp. 5 - 63
Erich Heinz Benedix (1955) "Die Ascomycetengattung Leotia Will. Em. Bx. Und ihre Vertreter in Mitteleuropa" (The ascomycete genus Leotia Willdenow em. Benedix and its representatives in Central Europe) in Feddes Repertorium 58 pp. 198 - 208
Erich Heinz Benedix (1962 - 1972) "Gattungsgrenzen bei höheren Discomyceten - Die Kulturpflanze" (Distinguishing the genera of the higher discomycetes in pure culture) in Berichte und Mitteilungen aus dem Institut fuer Kulturpflanzenforschung der Deutschen Akademi der Wissenschaften zu Berlin in Gatersleben (Papers and Reports of the Institute for Research on Cultivated Plants of the German Academy of Science in Berlin/Gatersleben) Issued in four parts, in issues 10, 14, 17, and 19 of the journal
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