Johann Nepomuk Schnabl (5 October 1853 in

Moosburg Moosburg an der Isar ( Central Bavarian: ''Mooschbuag on da Isa'') is a town in the ''Landkreis'' Freising of Bavaria, Germany. The oldest town between Regensburg and Italy lies on the river Isar at an altitude of 421 m (1381 ft). It ...

– 16 June 1899 in

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) was a German schoolteacher and

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and ...

. He worked as a schoolteacher in the communities of Zolling,

Freising Freising () is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising (district), with a population of about 50,000. Location Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano, and is located on the Isar river in ...

and

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(from 1877). In 1896 he was named head instructor at the "Höheren-Töchterschule" in Munich. With mycologist Andreas Allescher, he edited the

exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...

''Fungi Bavarici'' (no. 1 - no. 700). In 1892 he published ''Mykologische Beiträge zur Flora Bayerns'' (Mycological contribution to Bavarian flora").Mykologische Beiträge zur Flora Bayerns
Mycobank literature He was the

binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, altho ...

of the fungi species ''Cryptomela allescheri'', ''Curreya rehmii'', ''Diplodia caraganae'' and ''Diplodia coluteae''. Mycological taxa with the specific epithet of ''schnablianum'' commemorates his name; examples being ''Belonidium schnablianum'' ( Rehm, 1896) and ''Fusarium schnablianum'' ( Allesch., 1895).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schnabl, Johann Nepomuk 1853 births 1899 deaths People from Freising (district) German mycologists