Hanns Kreisel (16 July 1931 – 18 January 2017) was a German mycologist and

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. He was born in

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in 1931. Kreisel was a professor at the University of Greifswald. His field was the classification of

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, where he has studied this group of organisms not only in Germany but in almost all continents, as in Brazil, Seychelles, Vietnam, Cuba and Syria. He had succeeded with his first collaboration to develop a scientifically sound and current fungal flora of

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. Kreisel also specialized in the fungal groups of gut fungi. Kreisel was also the editor of several international scientific journals. He died in January 2017 at Wolgast.

Eponymous taxa

*'' Chrysosporium kreiselii'' Dominik 1965 *'' Kreiseliella'' U.Braun 1991 *'' Kreiseliella typhae'' (Vasyag.) U.Braun 1991 *'' Meliola kreiseliana'' Schmied. 1989 *'' Passalora kreiseliana'' U.Braun & Crous 2002 *'' Peziza kreiselii'' G.Hirsch 1992 *'' Puccinia kreiselii'' M.Scholler 1996 *'' Tulostoma kreiselii'' G.Moreno, E.Horak & Altés 2002

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kreisel, Hanns 1931 births 2017 deaths German mycologists People from Leipzig