Karl Kalchbrenner
Karl Kalchbrenner , also Károly Kalchbrenner , (born May 5, 1807 in Pöttelsdorf , † June 5, 1886 in Wallendorf ) was an Austro-Hungarian mycologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Kalchbr. "
Life
Kalchbrenner was the son of pastor Joseph Kalchbrenner (who had studied in Jena and also advocated popular education in his communities in the sense of later adult education centers) and attended schools in Agendorf , the grammar school in Raab (to learn Hungarian), Ödenburg (Lyceum) , the Piarist grammar school in Pest and the grammar school in Schemnitz . He studied theology at the Protestant Academy in Ödenburg and in Halle an der Saale (where he also made contact with his fellow student Oswald Heer ) and after a short time was in Pest as chaplain under his father from 1832 until his death in Wallendorf an der Spiš in today's Slovakia . Most recently he was Chief Superintendent of the Seven Cities in the Spiš .
He became known beyond Austria-Hungary through his work on the mushrooms of Hungary. He also researched mosses and algae. In 1872 he became a corresponding and in 1882 a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
His main work is a monograph on the mushrooms of Spiš (Icones selectae, 1873 to 1877), in which he listed 1334 species. It contained 40 color plates by Stephan Schulzer von Müggenburg , whose manuscript on Hungarian mushrooms was acquired by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1869 and who gave Kalchbrenner to work on. He also attracted attention through an 1868 work on the plant geography of the Spiš Ore Mountains, published in the treatises of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He had connections to leading mycologists in Europe (such as Elias Magnus Fries , Ludwig Heufler von Hohenbühel (1817–1885), Felix von Thümen , Casimir Roumeguère (1828–1892) and the algologist Sébastien René Lenormand (1796–1871)) and also worked on them Mushroom collections from other parts of the world (e.g. Siberia, South America, Australia). A number of first descriptions of mushrooms come from him and mushrooms were named after him.
Kalchbrenner supplied mosses from the Carpathian Mountains for the Exsiccaten collection (dried specimens) of Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst .
He married Mathilde Stavnicky, with whom he had three children.
Fonts
- with Stephan Schulzer von Müggenburg: Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae, 4 parts, 1873 to 1877
Web links
- Kalchbrenner, Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 188.
- Biography on the website of the Ödenburger Land
- Dedication names and first descriptions of Kalchbrenner
- Author entry at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kalchbrenner, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kalchbrenner, Károly; Calchbr. (botanical author abbreviation) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Hungarian mycologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poettelsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1886 |
| Place of death | Wallendorf |