Károly Kalchbrenner (born 5 May 1807 in Pöttelsdorf, died 6 June 1886 in Spišské Vlachy) was a Hungarian

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 trained in theology early in life and became a priest in Spišské Vlachy, nowadays at 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

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria, Australia ...

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, John Medley Wood in South Africa,

Mordecai Cubitt Cooke Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (12 July 1825, in Horning, Norfolk – 12 November 1914, in Southsea, Hampshire) was an English botanist and mycologist who was, at various points, a London schoolteacher, a Kew mycologist, curator at the India Museum, jour ...

in England and Felix von Thümen in Austria. He was elected a full member of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

, 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 ''Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae'' is a series of papers written by the Victorian Government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in which he published many of his approximately 2000 descriptions of new taxa of Australian plants. Including the p ...

'', and several papers in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, "Definitions of new fungi" and new descriptions of Western Australian ''

Agaricus ''Agaricus'' is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi containing both edible and poisonous species, with over 400 members worldwide and possibly again as many disputed or newly discovered species. The genus includes the common ("button") mushroom ...

'' in 1882, and further descriptions of new fungi species in 1883. *'' Amanita effusa'' *'' Humidicutis lewelliniae'' *''

Lepista caffrorum ''Lepista'' is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi. According to the ''Dictionary of the Fungi'' (10th edition, 2008), the widespread genus contains approximately 50 species. In 1969, Howard Bigelow and Alex H. Smith designated the group as subgen ...

'' *'' 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 Mycologists