Vilmos Köfarago Gyelnik     (1906 - 1945)


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Biography

1929     earns PhD from Budapest University

works at Budapest National Museum during WWII

1945     killed in Austria by Allied bombing

Gyelnik published ~100 papers proposing 1307 new names for various lichens. As you might imagine, not everyone was happy about this. There is a photo of him, and a sample of his handwriting at the website listed below.

Sources

Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, D. L. Hawksworth & P. W. James (1971) Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi


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Gyelnik photo and handwriting


Selected Publications

Vilmos Köfarago Gyelnik (1932) Über einige Arten der Gattung Parmeliopsis (Stizenb.) Nyl. (On some species in the genus Parmeliopsis (Stitzenberger) Nylander)
The title is actually misleading: although it only has descriptions of some species, it has a key to all of them (as known at the time).


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