František Kotlaba

František Kotlaba (born May 20, 1927 in Vlastiboř , Czechoslovakia , † June 11, 2020 in Prague ) was a Czech botanist and mycologist . His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is “ Kotl. ".

Life

After studying natural sciences and education at Charles University in Prague , Kotlaba received a position at the National Museum in Prague in 1957 . From 1962 to 1990 he was a research assistant at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Průhonice . For a long time, Kotlaba was a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Mykologické listy and is the author of several books, some of them of a popular scientific nature. One of his books, which was illustrated by František Procházka , was also published in German under the title Our mushrooms . The mycological journal Česká Mykologie , for which he contributed numerous articles, dedicated an issue to him on his 80th birthday in 2007. A genus from the family of stem porlings was also named Frantisekia in his honor .

research

Kotlabas main research areas taxonomy, distribution and ecology were the leaves mushrooms and Porlinge . He has also published several papers on fungus protection.

Fonts

(1984): Zeměpisné rozšíření a ekologie chorošů (Polyporales s. L.) V Československu (1984) (Distribution and ecology of Porlinge (Polyporales s. L.) In Czechoslovakia).

Web links

Literature by and about František Kotlaba in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature and other media by and about František Kotlaba in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
Kotlaba, František at Index Fungorum

Individual evidence

↑ ČESKÁ VĚDECKÁ SPOLEČNOST PRO MYKOLOGII. In: Czech Mykology. Czech Scientific Society for Mycology, accessed July 7, 2020 (Czech).
↑ www.vesmir.cz Retrieved November 24, 2009.
↑ Wjacheslav Spirin, Ivan Zmitrovich: frantisekia - a new polypore genus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) . In: Česká Mykologie 59 (1) / 2007. Pp. 141-151.
^ Frantisek Kotlaba (b. 1927) www.mushroomthejournal.com, accessed on November 24, 2009.

personal data
SURNAME	Kotlaba, František
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech botanist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vlastiboř , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH	June 11, 2020
Place of death	Prague

[1] ČESKÁ VĚDECKÁ SPOLEČNOST PRO MYKOLOGII. In: Czech Mykology. Czech Scientific Society for Mycology, accessed July 7, 2020 (Czech).

[vesmír-2] www.vesmir.cz Retrieved November 24, 2009.

[czech_mycology-3] Wjacheslav Spirin, Ivan Zmitrovich: frantisekia - a new polypore genus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) . In: Česká Mykologie 59 (1) / 2007. Pp. 141-151.

[mushroom-4] Frantisek Kotlaba (b. 1927) www.mushroomthejournal.com, accessed on November 24, 2009.