John Eriksson
Illustration — John Eriksson at the University of Gothenburg in 1985 John Leonard Eriksson (26 March 1921 in Hagfors – 1 June 1995) was a Swedish mycologist. He specialized in crust fungi of the basidiomycetes, collecting in Sweden (especially in Muddus National Park, the Gothenburg region and Värnamo), Finland and Canada. Eriksson was a student of John Axel Nannfeldt and Seth Lundell, and defended his doctoral dissertation Studies in the Heterobasidiomycetes and Homobasidiomycetes-Aphyllophorales of Muddus National Park in Northern Sweden[3] on the wood-associated fungal flora in Muddus National Park at Uppsala University in 1958.
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John Eriksson
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- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupation
- mycologist · illustrator · university teacher
- Fields
- mycology · scientific illustration
- Education
- Uppsala University
- Teachers
- John Axel Nannfeldt · Seth Lundell
- Languages
- English · Swedish
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Illustration — John Eriksson at the University of Gothenburg in 1985 John Leonard Eriksson (26 March 1921 in Hagfors – 1 June 1995) was a Swedish mycologist. He specialized in crust fungi of the basidiomycetes, collecting in Sweden (especially in Muddus National Park, the Gothenburg region and Värnamo), Finland and Canada. Eriksson was a student of John Axel Nannfeldt and Seth Lundell, and defended his doctoral dissertation Studies in the Heterobasidiomycetes and Homobasidiomycetes-Aphyllophorales of Muddus National Park in Northern Sweden[3] on the wood-associated fungal flora in Muddus National Park at Uppsala University in 1958.
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Born at Hagfors in 1921, died in Gothenburg in 1995.
John Eriksson studied at Uppsala University. Training under John Axel Nannfeldt and Seth Lundell is recorded. The recorded working language is English and Swedish. The field of work recorded is mycology and scientific illustration. Employment is recorded with University of Gothenburg.
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- 1.Hallenberg, N. John Eriksson in memoriam. Windahlia (Göteborgs Svampklubb). 22. 1–6. 1997.
- 2.Jonsell, B. Svensk botanisk forskning under 1900-talet. Svensk botanisk tidskrift (Svensk botanisk förening). 101. 19–54. 2007.
- 3.Hjortstam, K. John Eriksson – Publications, described genera, other taxa, and combinations. Windahlia (Göteborgs Svampklubb). 22. 7–12. 1997.
- 4.Galan, M. Corticiaceas 'Hifodermoideas' (Basidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales) de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentine. Darwiniana. 32. 1–4. 237–256. 1993.
- 5.Hallenberg, N. Hypochnicium erikssonii sp.nov. instead of H. sphaerosporum. Windahlia. 18. 43–45. 1990.
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