Erhard Ludwig

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Erhard Ludwig

Erhard Ludwig (born October 2, 1938 in Berlin ; † January 23, 2019 ) was a German mycologist from Berlin. Its official author's abbreviation is “ E. Ludw. "

Life

Ludwig attended grammar school until he graduated from high school in 1958. He then went through vocational training to become a customs inspector - his last post was Wilhelmshaven. In 1963 he moved to the Berlin State Service for the Senate Administration for Schools. There he last worked as a budget officer in the office of a government director. In 1996 he retired as part of the merger of Senate departments.

Erhard Ludwig was married and had two daughters.

Act

Ludwig was introduced to mushroom picking by his mother as a child. At the age of 16 he suffered severe mushroom poisoning - the trigger was a type that was considered a good edible mushroom at the time and is still consumed today, sometimes without immediate consequences. Since the age of 35, Ludwig has been studying mushrooms more intensively. He joined the German Society for Mycology and a small fungal research group in Berlin.

After initial failures in mushroom photography, the mycologist learned the watercolor technique autodidactically. He painted 3750 types of mushrooms in watercolor in an estimated 25,000 individual representations. The images formed the basis for a 6-volume mushroom iconography that he had been working on for 25 years. Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 have already been published - on July 9, 2007, Erhard Ludwig received the Anton de Bary Prize from the Regensburg Botanical Society for his work “Mushroom Compendium” . In the meantime, the mycologist has provided mushroom illustrations for specialist articles and books, has written his own specialist articles and has also discovered and described new types of fungus for science. In 2016 he was made an honorary member of the German Society for Mycology.

In 1991 Ludwig and other mushroom friends founded the Mushroom Science Working Group Berlin-Brandenburg eV (PABB), which consists of almost 50 members (as of 12/2011).

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Books

  • Mushroom Compendium. Volume 1: Illustrations. The smaller genera of macromycetes with a lamellar hymenophore from the orders Agaricales, Boletales and Polyporales . IHW-Verlag, Eching 2001, ISBN 3-930167-42-5 .
  • Mushroom Compendium. Volume 1: Descriptions. The smaller genera of macromycetes with a lamellar hymenophore from the orders Agaricales, Boletales and Polyporales . IHW-Verlag, Eching 2001, ISBN 3-930167-43-3 .
  • Mushroom Compendium. Volume 2: Illustrations. The larger genera of the Agaricales with colored spore powder (except Cortinariaceae) . Fungicon Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-940316-00-4 .
  • Mushroom Compendium. Volume 2: Descriptions. The larger genera of the Agaricales with colored spore powder (except Cortinariaceae) . Fungicon Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-940316-01-1 .
  • Mushroom Compendium. Volume 3: Illustrations. The remaining genera of the lamellar mushrooms with white spore powder - with the exception of Melanoleuca . Fungicon Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940316-02-8 .
  • Mushroom Compendium. Volume 3: Descriptions. The remaining genera of the lamellar mushrooms with white spore powder - with the exception of Melanoleuca . Fungicon Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940316-03-5 .
  • Mushroom Compendium. Volume 4: Illustrations. Cortinariaceae I - Cortinarius (part I), Galerina, Hebeloma, Hebelomina, Inocybe, Phaeogalera. Fungicon Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-940316-04-2 .
  • Mushroom Compendium. Volume 4: Descriptions. Cortinariaceae I - Cortinarius (part I), Galerina, Hebeloma, Hebelomina, Inocybe, Phaeogalera. Fungicon Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-940316-05-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2019