David Gruby (1810 - 1898)
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Biography
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Biography
1810 born in Austria
studies medicine in Vienna, then goes to Paris and conducts research at the Hospital St. Louis and the Foundling Asylum
1841 - 1844 publishes the first descriptions of the fungi that cause favus, thrush and ringworm.
1844 practices medicine in Paris
Sources
Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, D. L. Hawksworth & P. W. James (1971) Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi
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