Hermann Jahn (biologist)

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Hermann Theodor Jahn (born December 21, 1911 in Schlebusch ; † July 19, 1987 ) was a German teacher , ornithologist and mycologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " H.Jahn ".

Life

Jahn studied language and natural sciences from 1930 to 1937 at the University of Cologne and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and then stayed in Japan until 1941 , where he taught as a teacher at the German school in Kobe . In Japan he also researched the bird life there and received his doctorate in 1941 under Erwin Stresemann and Adolf Remane with a thesis on this field of work.

After his return from Japan he was employed at the Foreign Office and in the press department of the German legation in Stockholm . After 1945 he entered the school service and taught among other things at high schools in Opladen , Recklinghausen and Detmold .

After 1945 he also made a name for himself as a mycologist. He has published his research results mainly in works on floristry , systematics and ecology of macromyzetes , especially the Polyporaceae . He has also published popular science books on mushrooms. Jahn published the Westphalian Mushroom Letters , which are known beyond the German-speaking area and are now also available online. Incidentally, Jahn also depicted numerous mushrooms in pictures.

Fonts

selection

  • On the ecology and biology of the birds of Japan. 1941.
  • Mushrooms all around. A paperback for identifying and looking up around 500 native mushroom species. Park-Verlag, Hamburg 1949.
  • (Collaboration / text for the mushroom-related part): Mushroom cookbook. The practical mushroom guide. Processed by the test kitchen of the company Dr. August Oetker, Bielefeld. Ceres-Verlag Oetker, Bielefeld 1963.
  • We pick mushrooms. Drawings: Betty Kothe-Marxmeier. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1964 / European book and Phonoklub, Stuttgart 1968.
  • Central European porlings (Polyporaceae s. Lato) and their occurrence in Westphalia (excluding the resupinate species). Westphalian Mushroom letters, Heiligenkirchen / Detmold 1964.
  • Central European porlings and their occurrence in Westphalia. Cramer, teaching 1970.
  • Mushrooms that grow on wood. Busse, Herford 1979; ISBN 3-87120-853-1 .
  • Mushrooms all around. A paperback for identifying and looking up around 500 native mushroom species. Koeltz, Königstein 1979.
  • The resupinate Phellinus species in Central Europe. With references to the resupinate Inonotus species u. Poria expansa (Desm.) (= Polyporus megaloporus Pers.). Cramer, Vaduz 1981, ISBN 3-7682-1307-2 .
  • Mushrooms on trees. Patzer, Berlin 1990.
  • Mushrooms on trees. Way of life, harmful effects and characteristics of the most common types of fungus in dead wood and living trees. Revised by Hermann Reinartz and Michael Schlag. Patzer, Berlin, Hanover 2005; ISBN 3-87617-111-3 .

literature

  • Annemarie Runge, Ingo Nuss (1988): In memoriam Dr. Hermann Jahn. Journal of Mycology 54 (2): 187-196.
  • Heinrich Dörfelt , Heike Heklau: The history of mycology. Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1998, 573 pages, ISBN 3-927654-44-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahn, Hermann Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, ornithologist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlebusch
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1987