Erich Heinz Benedix
Erich Heinz Benedix (born August 13, 1914 in Dresden ; † March 11, 1983 there ) was a German botanist and mycologist . His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is " Benedix ", earlier the abbreviation " Bx." " in use.
Life
After graduating from high school in 1934, the son of a school principal studied biology at the Technical University of Dresden and then moved to the University of Freiburg in 1935 and from 1936 to the University of Jena . His academic teachers were the botanists Friedrich Tobler- Wolff (1879–1957) and Hans Söding (1898–2001) in Jena, the zoologist Hans Spemann and the botanist Friedrich Oehlkers in Freiburg, as well as Gerhard Lorbeer (1899–1945), Otto Renner and Theodor Herzog in Jena.
Already during his student days he was particularly interested in mosses and mushrooms. Study trips during this time took him to the island of Hiddensee , the Bavarian Alps , the Karpato-Ukraine , the High Tatras and Hungary.
He wrote his dissertation on " Indomalayische Cololejeuneen " under the guidance of Theodor Herzog. In it he described 14 new Cololejeunea species and introduced the subgenera Metalejeunea , Lasiolejeunea , Chondriolejeunea , Cryptoleleunea and Chlorolejenea . He has also contributed Lejeneace drawings in the 2nd part of the Lebermoos Flora by Karl Müller (3rd edition 1957).
During the bombing raid on Dresden in February 1945, Benedix was buried and only survived with severe physical disabilities. He completed his dissertation in 1947. He then worked as a freelancer, including teaching assignments in mycology at the Technical University of Dresden, then as a research assistant at the Institute for Crop Plant Research in Gatersleben , where he was employed in the taxonomy department . From this time on he was mainly active in mycology.
His main mycological research area was the systematics of the fruiting body-forming Ascomycetes . In addition, he was also known through fungal analysis of Thuringia.
In 1941 he became a member of the German Society of Mycology and held from 1957 to 1963 together with Hans Kühlwein the office of writing head of the magazine for mycology . During this time, the connection between mycologists in the FRG and the GDR was preserved.
In 1954 Benedix founded the specialist group for fungal science in Dresden , and in 1954 and 1957 he organized international mycologist conferences in Dresden and in 1961 in Gatersleben.
Benedix also endeavored to bring the knowledge about the mushrooms to a wider public. Among other things, he published quartet plays. In 1953 mushrooms appeared anytime , in 1966 an issue with the title mushrooms everywhere and 1972 mushrooms at will .
His mushroom types are kept in Munich, his moss specimens in Jena.
literature
- Frahm, Jan-Peter u. Eggers Jens: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-8311-0986-9 .
- Dörfelt, Heinrich and Heklau, Heike: The history of mycology. Einhorn-Verlag Eduard Dietenberger GmbH: Schwäbisch Gmünd. 1998
- Moser, Meinhard: Dr. EH Benedix - for his 60th birthday. Journal of Mushroom Science (40) 3-4: 236-238. 1974
Fonts
- (1944) Mushroom passages around Jena - a mycogeographical sketch from East Thuringia . Announcements of the Thuringian Botanical Association 51: 1 pp. 255–317
- (1949) New Jena mushroom finds : communications from the Thuringian Botanical Association (1) S 5–63
- (1955) The Ascomycete genus Leotia Will. Em. Bx. And their representatives in Central Europe . Feddes Repertory (58): 198-208
- (1962–1972) Generic limits in higher Discomycetes - the cultivated plant . Reports and communications from the Institute for Crop Plant Research of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in Gatersleben.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benedix, Erich Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist and mycologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1983 |
| Place of death | Dresden |