Károly Kalchbrenner (born 5 May 1807 in

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, died 5 June 1886 in Spišské Vlachy) was a Hungarian

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. He trained in theology early in life and became a priest in Spišské Vlachy, north-eastern

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. His contributions include the publication of 60 papers and description of more than 400 fungi from Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. He wrote and illustrated the ''Icones Selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae''. Among those he later collaborated with are

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in South Africa,

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in England and

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in Austria. He was elected a full member of the

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, and a corresponding member of the

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Taxa named

The genus '' Kalchbrenneriella'' was named in his honour. Kalchbrenner's descriptions were included in Mueller's '' Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'', and several papers in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, "Definitions of new fungi" and new descriptions of Western Australian ''

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'' in 1882, and further descriptions of new fungi species in 1883. *'' Amanita effusa'' *'' Humidicutis lewelliniae'' *'' Lepista caffrorum'' *'' Uredo commelinae''Kalchbrenner K. 1882) ''Grevillea'' 11(no. 57): p. 24

Publications

Complete bibliography on Worldcat

References

External links

Biography in Hungarian with picture
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalchbrenner, Karoly 1807 births 1886 deaths People from Mattersburg District Hungarian-German people 19th-century Hungarian botanists Hungarian mycologists