Johann Friedrich Klotzsch

Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805 - 1860)

Image of Suillus grevillei from A. M. Hussey (1847 - 1855) Illustrations of British mycology

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Biography

studies to be an apothecary; then studies pharmacy and medicine

1830 - 1832 lives in England, working in Scotland and at Kew botanical gardens

1834 appointed assistant to Chamisso at the royal herbarium in Berlin, and given a PhD

1836 promoted to second curator of the collection

1838 promoted to primary curator of the collection

Klotzsch's main work was in straightening things out and documenting them. Hence his two centuries of German fungi, and his work with the Sowerby collection.
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Sources

Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)

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Selected Publications

Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1832) "Mykologische Berichtigungen zu der nachgelassenen Sowerbyschen Sammlung, so wie zu den wenigen in Linneschen Herbarium vorhandenen Pilzen nebst Aufstellung einiger ausländischer Gattungen und Arten" (Mycological determinations for the addenda to the Sowerby collection, a few of [the fungi] on stock in the Linnaean herbarium, with a presentation of some of the foreign genera and species) in Linnaea 7 pp. 193 - 203

Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1832) Herbarium vivum mycologicum sistens fungorum per totam Germaniam crescentium collectionem perfectam (Living mycological herbarium for the increase and perfection of the collection of all the fungi of Germany)