Paul Christoph Hennings

Paul Christoph Hennings (1841 - 1908)

Image of Paul Christoph Hennings from Curtis Gates Lloyd (1898 - 1925) Mycological Notes

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Biography

1855 drops out of high school, works as a volunteer in the Botanical Garden in Kiel

1864 - 1874 works in the post office in various places in northern Germany

1874 appointed assistant at the botanical garden in Kiel

1880 appointed scientific assistant at the botanical museum in Kiel

1883 appointed scientific assistant at the botanical museum in Berlin

1890 appointed assistant curator

1891 appointed curator

1893 becomes editor of the journal Hedwigia

1902 appointed Royal Professor

1905 retires as editor of Hedwigia

I read somewhere (probably Lloyd) that Hennings got into mycology by accident: his position was really just botany in general, and he was more of an administrator than a scientist; but they were short a mycologist so he ended up writing up some collections himself, and just took off from there.
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Sources

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

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Selected Publications

Paul Christoph Hennings (1891) "Fungi africani: 1" (: Fungi of Africa) in Botanisches Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie, hrsg. von A. Engler (Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history, and plant geography, edited by A. Engler) 14 pp. 337 - 373

Paul Christoph Hennings (1893) "Fungi africani: 2" (: Fungi of Africa) in Botanisches Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie, hrsg. von A. Engler (Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history, and plant geography, edited by A. Engler) 17 pp. 1 - 42

Paul Christoph Hennings (1893) "Fungi Warburgiani" (Fungi of Warburg) in Hedwigia 32 pp. 216 - 227

Paul Christoph Hennings (1895) "Fungi aethiopici" (Fungi of Ethiopia) in Hedwigia 34 p. 328

Paul Christoph Hennings (1896) "Beiträge zur Pilzflora Südamerikas: 1" (Contributions towards a mushroom flora of South America) in Hedwigia 35 p. 207

Paul Christoph Hennings (1897) "Fungi camerunenses: 2. (incl. Nonnullis aliis africanis)" (Fungi of the Cameroons) in Englers botanische Jahrbuch (Engler's botanical yearbook) 23 pp. 537 - 558

This article names the first valid Lepiota fusispora. I'm sure you were all dying to know that.

Paul Christoph Hennings (1897) "Beiträge zur Pilzflora Südamerikas: 2" (Contributions towards a mushroom flora of South America) in Hedwigia 36 pp. 190 - 246

Paul Christoph Hennings (1900) "Fleischige Pilze aus Japan" (Fleshy fungi from Japan) in Hedwigia 39:5 pp. 155 - 157

Paul Christoph Hennings (1901) "Fungi Indiae orientalis: 2" (Fungi of East India) in Hedwigia 40 pp. 323 - 342

Paul Christoph Hennings (1904) "Fungi amazonici a. cl. Ernesto Ule collecti: 1" (Fungi of the Amazon, collected by Ernesto Ule) in Hedwigia 43 pp. 154 - 186

Paul Christoph Hennings (1904) "Fungi fluminenses a. cl. E. Ule collecti" (River (aquatic?) fungi collected by Ernesto Ule) in Hedwigia 43 pp. 78 - 95

presumably these also come from the Amazon

Species

Lepiota lilacinogranula P. C. Hennings
Leucocoprinus lilacinogranulus (P. C. Hennings) Locquin

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Genera

Sphaerostilbella P. C. Hennings

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