Hermann Neubert

Hermann Neubert (born January 23, 1935 in Mannheim ; † August 11, 2003 in Bühl ) was a German lawyer and mycologist , his research focus was myxogastria . His botanical author abbreviation is " H.Neubert ".

Neubert studied law in Heidelberg and completed his studies with a doctorate. From 1966 he worked as a judge at the Bühl District Court, later also as its director. In 2000 he retired.

In the 1960s, Neubert became interested in mushrooms. In 1965 he dealt with a slime mold, Trichia favoginea for the first time . In 1969 he published his first mycological article, by the end of his life he had had sixteen scientific publications. In 1970 he began to collect the first specimens of slime mold, they became the basis of his herbarium . Neubert's interest has since focused on the Myxogastria and in the following decades he became an expert on the group's taxonomy and ecology and was in close contact with scientists such as Elly Nannenga-Bremekamp . At the end of the day, his herbarium comprised 7,500 items and is now kept in the Botanical State Collection in Munich , along with half of the scientific estate. The other half is in the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe .

Neubert first described several taxa, for example from the genera Cribraria and Lamproderma . Together with Karlheinz Baumann and Wolfgang Nowotny , he wrote the three-volume work “ The Myxomycetes of Germany and the Adjacent Alpine Region with Special Consideration for Austria ”.

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Biographical note on the website of the Botanical State Collection Munich, online , accessed on January 3, 2011

Web links

• The Myxomycetes Collections at the Botanische Staatssammlung München , searchable database on the Neubert collection
• Author entry at the IPNI