Rudolf Aderhold

Rudolf Ferdinand Theodor Aderhold (born February 12, 1865 in Frankenhausen , † March 17, 1907 in Berlin- Dahlem) was a German mycologist . His specialty was primarily fungal diseases of fruit trees. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Aderh. "

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Aderhold came from a Thuringian family of craftsmen, his father was a butcher. In 1895 he married Anna Elise Clementine Haccius, the couple had a son.

Aderhold studied botany in Berlin and Jena, in Jena he was a student and later assistant to Ernst Stahl . In 1888 his dissertation on the topic “Contribution to the knowledge of judging forces in the movement of lower organisms” was published. He then moved to the Institute for Fruit Growing and Viticulture in Geisenheim and then in 1893 as the independent head of the botanical department of the research station at the Institute for Fruit Growing in Proskau (Silesia).

In 1901 Aderhold moved to Berlin as head of the botanical laboratory of the biological department for agriculture and forestry at the Imperial Health Department. From this he designed the Biological Institute for Agriculture and Forestry by 1905 , which existed until 2008, most recently as the Federal Biological Institute for Agriculture and Forestry . Aderhold was its first director until his death in 1907.

Aderhold first described over 20 new types of fungi during his research on phythopathogenic fungi, in 1905 he worked together with Wilhelm Ruhland on some sclerotinia in the work "On the knowledge of fruit tree sclerotinias". Many of the taxa he described have meanwhile been synonymous or, as teleomorphs, have since been placed among the anamorphs , but some still exist. The species accepted to date include, for example, Mycosphaerella cerasella or Venturia pyrina .

Rudolf Aderhold died in 1907 at the age of 42 in Berlin-Dahlem and was buried in the Dahlem cemetery. The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

• Contribution to the knowledge of directing forces in the movement of lower organisms , 1888, dissertation
• Some new mushrooms , 1905
• Knowledge of the fruit tree sclerotinia: Smaller reports , 1905 (with Wilhelm Ruhland)

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Martin Müllerott:  Aderhold, Rudolf Ferdinand Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 65 f. ( Digitized version ).
2. ↑ mycobank.org: MycoBank in English , accessed on May 25, 2012
3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 567.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Rudolf Aderhold at the IPNI