Eduard Fischer
Born(1861-06-16)16 June 1861
Bern
Died18 November 1939(1939-11-18) (aged 78)
Bern
CitizenshipSwiss
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, mycology, plant pathology
InstitutionsUniversity of Bern
Doctoral advisorHeinrich Anton de Bary
Doctoral studentsLydia Rabinowitsch, Ernst Albert Gäumann
Author abbrev. (botany)E.Fisch.

Eduard Fischer (16 June 1861 – 18 November 1939) was a Swiss botanist and mycologist.

Life

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Fischer was the son of botanist Ludwig Fischer, a professor and director of the state botanic garden.[1][2] 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.[3][2] 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

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Fischer produced major monographs for central Europe of various ascomycete and basidiomycete groups, including rusts.[4] Fischer encouraged the plant pathologist Arthur Jaczewski to study mycology.[5] His graduate students included the Lithuanian-born American physician Lydia Rabinowitsch,[1] and the mycologist Ernst Albert Gäumann.[6] Fischer became a member of the Linnean Society of London in 1932.[7]

Honors

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Taxa described

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Staheliomyces cinctus was described by Fischer in 1921.

Eponymous taxa

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Publications

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The standard author abbreviation E.Fisch. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b Creese MRS, Creese TM (2004). Ladies in the Laboratory 2. Scarecrow Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-8108-4979-2.
  2. ^ a b c Blumer, S. (1939). "Prof. Dr. Eduard Fischer und sein wissenschaftliches Werk". Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern. Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Bern (in German): 90–101.
  3. ^ Ainsworth GC. (1976). Introduction to the History of Mycology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 283. ISBN 0-521-11295-8.
  4. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  5. ^ Ainsworth GC. (1981). Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-521-23032-2.
  6. ^ Gardner MW, Kern H (1965). "Ernst Albert Gäumann, 1893–1963". Mycologia. 57 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1080/00275514.1965.12018188. JSTOR 3756705.
  7. ^ "New Foreign Members of the Linnean Society". Nature. 129 (3264): 753. 21 May 1932. Bibcode:1932Natur.129Q.753.. doi:10.1038/129753a0.
  8. ^ Trappe JM. (1975). "The genus Fischerula (Tuberales)". Mycologia. 67 (5): 934–41. doi:10.2307/3758584. JSTOR 3758584.
  9. ^ Curtis, Kathleen Maisey (1926-04-01). "The Morphology of Claustula Fischeri, gen. et sp. nov. A New Genus of Phalloid Affinity". Annals of Botany. os-40 (2): 471–477. doi:10.1093/OXFORDJOURNALS.AOB.A090029.
  10. ^ International Plant Names Index.  E.Fisch.
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