Eduard Fischer
Eduard Fischer (16 June 1861 – 18 November 1939) was a Swiss botanist and mycologist.
Also recorded as E.Fisch. · Eduard Ludwig Fischer
Eduard Fischer
- Name
- Eduard Fischer
- Born
- 16 June 1861
- Birthplace
- Bern
- Died
- 18 November 1939
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- botanist · university teacher · writer · mycologist
- Fields
- mycology · botany
- Education
- University of Bern
- Honours
- Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
- Languages
- German
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Eduard Fischer (16 June 1861 – 18 November 1939) was a Swiss botanist and mycologist.
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Eduard Fischer (1861–1939) was a Swiss botanist, mycologist and university teacher, among other activities. The botanist was born and died in Bern.
Eduard Fischer studied at University of Bern. The botanist worked for Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University of Bern and was a member of Academy of Sciences of Turin. Eduard Fischer held the position of rector and worked in Berlin and Strasbourg. The botanist was active in botany and mycology.
Languages used include German. Eduard Fischer received Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
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Eduard Fischer studied at University of Bern. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is mycology and botany. Places of work recorded in the authority are Strasbourg and Berlin. Employment is recorded with University of Bern and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Positions recorded include rector. Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
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Key facts
• Name — Eduard Fischer • Born — 16 June 1861 • Birthplace — Bern • Died — 18 November 1939 • Place of death — Bern • Children — Kurt von Fischer • Citizenship — Swiss • Fields — Botany, mycology, plant pathology • Workplaces — University of Bern • Doctoral Advisor — Heinrich Anton de Bary • Doctoral Students — Lydia Rabinowitsch, Ernst Albert Gäumann • Author Abbrev Bot — E.Fisch.
Life
Life
Fischer was the son of botanist Ludwig Fischer, a professor and director of the state botanic garden. Fischer studied at the University of Bern and graduated in 1883 with mushroom researcher Heinrich Anton de Bary in Strasbourg, with whom he studied Gasteromycetes. During further studies in Berlin during 1884–1885, he worked with Simon Schwendener (1829–1919), August Wilhelm Eichler (1839–1887) and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834–1913). In 1885 Fischer was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Bern; 1893, he was promoted to associate professor. From 1897 to 1933 he was professor of botany and general biology at the university, and succeeded his father as director of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Institute in Bern. In 1899, Fischer married Johanna Gruner, who came from a scholarly family. He died in Bern on 18 November 1939, aged 78. He was the father of the pianist Kurt von Fischer.
Work
Work
Fischer produced major monographs for central Europe of various ascomycete and basidiomycete groups, including rusts. Fischer encouraged the plant pathologist Arthur Jaczewski to study mycology. His graduate students included the Lithuanian-born American physician Lydia Rabinowitsch, and the mycologist Ernst Albert Gäumann. Fischer became a member of the Linnean Society of London in 1932.
Taxa described
Taxa described
• Illustration — Staheliomyces cinctus was described by Fischer in 1921. • Aseroe arachnoidea E.Fisch. (1890) • Calostomataceae E.Fisch. (1900) • Mattirolomyces E.Fisch. (1938) • Melanogastraceae E.Fisch. (1933) • Onygena arietina E.Fisch. (1897) • Peronosporales E.Fisch. (1892) • Petchiomyces E.Fisch. & Mattir. (1938) • Phallales E.Fisch. (1898) • Pisolithus kisslingii E.Fisch. (1906) • Pisolithus marmoratus (Berk.) E.Fisch. (1900) • Pseudohydnotrya E.Fisch. (1897) • Puccinia actaeae-agropyri E.Fisch. (1901) • Puccinia mayorii E.Fisch. 1904 • Saprolegniales E.Fisch. (1892) • Staheliomyces cinctus E.Fisch. (1921) • Terfeziaceae E.Fisch. 1897 • Tuber malacodermum E.Fisch. (1923) • Tremellogaster E.Fisch. (1924) • Trichocomaceae E.Fisch. (1897)
Eponymous taxa
Eponymous taxa
• Fischerula • Aspergillus fischerianus Samson & W. Gams • Aspergillus fischeri Wehmer • Ceriomyces fischeri Corda • Clathrus fischeri Pat. & Har. • Claustula fischeri K.M.Curtis • Coleosporium fischeri Mayor • Crotalia fischeri Zambett. • Entyloma fischeri Thüm. • Erysiphe fischeri S. Blumer • Golovinomyces fischeri (S. Blumer) U. Braun & R.T.A. Cook • Hydrophora fischeri Sumst. • Hysterangium fischeri Zeller & C.W. Dodge • Lepiota fischeri Kauffman • Micromycopsis fischeri Scherff. • Peridermium fischeri Kleb. • Phomopsis fischeri-eduardi Bubák 1916 • Poloniodiscus fischeri Svrèek & Kubièka • Polystictus fischeri Henn. • Puccinia fischeri Cruchet & Mayor • Rozellopsis fischeri Cejp • Staurothele fischeri O. Behr • Thekopsora fischeri Cruchet • Tilletia fischeri P. Karst. • Tolyposporium fischeri Vánky • Trichophyton fischeri J. Kane • Urocystis fischeri Körn. • Uromyces fischerianus Mayor • Uromyces fischeri-eduardi Magnus • Usnea fischeri G. Awasthi • Ustilago fischeri Pass. • Verrucaria fischeri Müll. • Pythiomorpha fischeriana Höhnk
Identity
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Eduard Fischer is recorded as having received Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
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1861
Eduard Fischer was born in 1861 at Bern.
1896
Praetorius' Oesterreichischer Medicinal-Schematismus für 1896: herausgegeben und redigert von Eduard Fischer., dated 1896, held by Wellcome Collection.
1938
Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien Nebst Ihren Gattungen und Wichtigeren Arten, Insbesondere Den Nutzpflanzen: Unter Mitwirkung Zahlreicher Hervorragender Fachgelehrten Begr. Von A. Engler / K. Prantl. Band 5 B VIII: Abteilung: EUMYCETES - Klasse: ASCOMYCETES, Reihe Euascales, Unterreihe VIII: Tuberineae. Bearb. Von Eduard Fischer. Mit Register digitised by Internet Archive.
1939
Eduard Fischer died in 1939 at Bern.
Publications
Publications
• Berlese, A.N.; De-Toni, J.B.; Fischer, E. (1888). Sylloge Fungorum 7 (1): 1–498. • Berlese, A.N.; De-Toni, J.B.; Fischer, E. (1888). Sylloge Fungorum 7 (2): 499. • Fischer, E. (1886). "Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Fruchtkörper einiger Phalloideen. Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 6: 1–51. • Fischer, E. (1888). "Zur Kenntniss der Pilzgattung Cyttaria". Botanische Zeitung 46: 813–831. • Fischer, E. (1888). "Zur Kenntniss der Pilzgattung Cyttaria". Botanische Zeitung 48: 842–846. • Fischer, E. (1897). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Schweizerischen Rostpilze". Bulletin de l’Herbier Boissier 5: 393–394. • Fischer, E. (1909). "Studien zur Biologie von Gymnosporangium juniperinum". Zeitschrift für Botanik 1: 683–714. • Fischer, E. (1920, publ. 1921). "Zur Kenntnis von Graphiola und Farysia". Annales Mycologici 18: 188–197. • Eduard Fischer (1922) "Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gattung Graphiola" (More contributions towards understanding of the genus Graphiola) in Annales Mycologici (Annals of Mycology) 20:3 pp. 228 – 237 • Fischer, E.; Albert Gäumann E.A. (1929) Biologie der pflanzenbewohnenden Pilze (Biology of the plant-inhabiting fungi) • Fischer, E. (1933) Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien: Unterklasse Eubasidii. Reihe Gastromyceteae (ed. by Engler and Prantl) E.Fisch.
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Honors
• 1931: Honorary doctorate of the University of Geneva • 1939: Honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel
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- 1.Scarecrow Press. Ladies in the Laboratory 2. 130. 2004. 978-0-8108-4979-2.
- 2.Blumer, S. Prof. Dr. Eduard Fischer und sein wissenschaftliches Werk. Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern. Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Bern. 90–101. 1939.
- 3.Ainsworth GC. Introduction to the History of Mycology. Cambridge University Press. 283. 1976. 0-521-11295-8.
- 4.CABI. Dictionary of the Fungi. 257. 2008. 978-0-85199-826-8.
- 5.Ainsworth GC. Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge University Press. 293. 1981. 978-0-521-23032-2.
- 6.Ernst Albert Gäumann, 1893–1963. Mycologia. 57. 1. 1–5. 1965. 10.1080/00275514.1965.12018188.
- 7.New Foreign Members of the Linnean Society. Nature. 129. 3264. 753. 21 May 1932. 10.1038/129753a0.
- 8.Trappe JM. The genus Fischerula (Tuberales). Mycologia. 67. 5. 934–41. 1975. 10.2307/3758584.
- 9.Curtis, Kathleen Maisey. The Morphology of Claustula Fischeri, gen. et sp. nov. A New Genus of Phalloid Affinity. Annals of Botany. os-40. 2. 471–477. 1926-04-01. 10.1093/OXFORDJOURNALS.AOB.A090029.
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The authorities additionally record the headings E.Fisch. And Eduard Ludwig Fischer. His recorded language was German. His recorded confession was reformed. He was the child of Ludvig Fischer. One child is recorded: Kurt von Fischer. Fischer worked in mycology and botany. He was employed by University of Bern and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Recorded position is rector. He belonged to Academy of Sciences of Turin. He worked at Strasbourg and Berlin.
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Fischer, Eduard, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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