Kurt Lohwag (1913–1970) was an Austrian

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

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 ...

. The son of the Austrian mycologist Heinrich Lohwag (1884 - 1945). He was educated at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

. For much of his career, he worked at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur, Vienna. He was honoured in 1970, when botanist

Franz Petrak Franz Petrak (9 October 1886, Mährisch-Weißkirchen – 9 October 1973, Vienna) was an Austrian-Czech mycologist. From 1906 to 1910, he studied botany at the University of Vienna, where he was a student of Richard Wettstein. In 1913, he obtai ...

named a genus of fungi, '' Lohwagiella'', which is now a synonym of '' Niesslia''

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1913 births 1970 deaths People from Tábor District 20th-century Austrian botanists Austrian mycologists University of Vienna alumni University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna {{Mycologist-stub