Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link     (1769 - 1851)




Image of Amanita phalloides from Abbé Giacomo Bresadola (1927 - 1960) Iconographia mycologica
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Biography
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Biography

1786     studies medicine at the university of Göttingen

1789     earns MD

1792 - 1811     associate professor for zoology, botany and chemistry at the university of Rostock

1800     elected to Leopoldina

1811     leaves Rostock for the university of Breslau

1815     leaves Breslau for the university of Berlin, where he is made director of the botanical garden and curator of the herbarium

Link had a very scientific orientation, doing many biological studies of plants at a time when not many people did. Except for his one famous fleshy fungus, most of the fungi he worked with were microscopic anamorphs. The number of his genera that are still used show the high quality of his work.
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Selected Publications

Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1829 - 1833) Handbuch zur Erkennung der nutzbarsten und am häufigsten vorkommenden Gewächse (Handbook for Recognizing the Most Useful and Most Commonly Occuring Plants) 3 vol.


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Species

Amanita phalloides Link: Fries
Creopus gelatinosus (Tode: Fries) Link

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Genera

Acremonium Link: Fries
Antennaria Link: Fries
Cephalotrichum Link: Fries
Cladosporium Link: Fries
Cordyceps Link
Creopus Link
Endogone Link: Fries emend Nicols. & Gerd.
Fusarium Link
Geotrichum Link: Persoon
Leocarpus Link
Myxomycetes Link
Penicillium Link: Fries
Phragmidium Link
Sepedonium Link: Fries
Uromyces (Link) F. J. A. N. Unger

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