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Gustav Lindau (2 May 1866 in
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– 10 October 1923 in
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), was a German
mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans, including as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, as w ...
and botanist.


Biography

Gustav Lindau studied natural history in
Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
and
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, where he studied under Simon Schwendener (1829–1919). He completed his doctoral thesis on the
apothecia An ascocarp, or ascoma (), is the fruiting body ( sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded asci, each of which typically contains four to eight ascospores. Ascocarps are mo ...
of
lichens A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state d ...
and an assistant to Julius Oscar Brefeld (1839–1925). In 1892 he became an assistant at the Berlin botanical garden. He obtained his
habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including ...
in 1894, and became a professor in 1902. He has been credited for having introduced the term "" to refer to fungal tissue in an 1899 publication, which he proposed could be further adapted for specific tissue types by adding
prefix A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Adding it to the beginning of one word changes it into another word. For example, when the prefix ''un-'' is added to the word ''happy'', it creates the word ''unhappy''. Particu ...
es such as "" and "". The genus ''Lindauea'' (
Acanthaceae Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in ...
) was named in his honor by Rendle, (it is now a synonym of ''
Lepidagathis ''Lepidagathis'' is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. Selected species * '' Lepidagathis ananthapuramensis'' * '' Lepidagathis backeri'' * '' Lepidagathis calycina'' * '' Lepidagathis cristata'' * ''Lepidagathis cuspidata'' * '' Le ...
'' ), and the
fungi A fungus (plural, : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of Eukaryote, eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and Mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified ...
genus ''
Lindauella ''Lindauella'' is a genus of fungi in the order Phyllachorales. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species ''Lindauella pyrenocarpoidea''. The genus name of ''Lindauella'' is in honour of Gustav Lindau (1866-1923), who was a German ...
'' was named after him by Heinrich Rehm in 1900. The fungus genus ''Lindauomyces'', named by Koorders in 1907, is now a synonym of '' Arthrobotryum''


Works

* Gustav Lindau and Paul Sydow: ''Thesaurus literaturae mycologicae et lichenologicae''. (1908–1917, 5 volumes) * Gustav Lindau: ''Kryptogamenflora für Anfanger'' (" Cryptogam flora for Beginners"). (1911–1914, 6 volumes)


Literature

* Heinrich Dörfelt (ed.):''Encyclopedia of mycology''. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, New York, 1989. * Zander, R. in Dictionary of Plant Names ed. 13, Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart,1984. ))


See also

* :Taxa named by Gustav Lindau


References


Note

Based in part on the translation from the German Wikipedia. Botanists with author abbreviations 1866 births 1923 deaths 19th-century German botanists German mycologists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni People from Dessau-Roßlau 20th-century German botanists {{Mycologist-stub