- Joseph Schröter
Joseph Schröter (1837-1894) [citeweb|url=http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/AuthorDetails.asp?ID=6439|title=Index Fungorum|accessmonthday=13 May|accessyear=2007] was a noted German
mycologist , doctor andscientist .citeweb|url=http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/Authors/JSchroeter1137.html|title=www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us|accessmonthday=13 May|accessyear=2007] During his lifetime, he wrote several books and texts, and discovered and described many species offlora andfungi . He also spent a considerable amount of time (around fifteen years, from 1871 to 1886) serving as a military doctor, particularly in theFranco-Prussian War , in places such asSpandau ,Rastatt andBreslau , and rising to the rank ofcolonel .Life
Not much is known about Joseph Schröter's childhood and youth, except that he probably spent those years in or close to Breslau, for that is where he was schooled. Similarly, not much is known about his relatives and family.
In 1855 Schröter chose to study
medicine in Breslau,Poland (a city today known asWrocław ), but, in 1856, he transferred to theFriedrich-Wilhelm Academy inBerlin , Germany. In 1859 he earned hisDoctor of Medicine degree. In the same year, he enlisted in the Prussian army, serving as a doctor in the Franco-Prussian war. He occupied this post to the end of the war, in 1871, before being stationed at Spandau, and later Rastatt. For his efforts as a doctor, as well as the various other contributions he made to the military (particularly during the Franco-Prussian War), Schröter was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1880. He was then stationed at Breslau, where he had been schooled.His career at theUniversity of Breslau began six years later, in 1886, when he was appointed as alecturer . He stayed at the university teaching for several years, and became aprofessor in 1890. He died in 1894, after returning from a scientific expedition toTurkey .Species described by Schröter
Some of the many species and genera described by Joseph Schröter are listed below.
Genera
During his lifetime and studies, Schröter described many
genera :
*Aleurodiscus
*Ceratiomyxa
*Clavulina
*Daedaleopsis
*Dicranophora
*Hygrophoropsis
*Plasmopara
*Sclerospora
*Sorosphaera
*Synchephalastrum Species
Schröter also described and discovered more than half a dozen species of flora, some of which are listed below:
*"Cinerea clavulina "
*"Cristata clavulina "
*"Confragosa daedaleopsis "
*"Serpula lacrimans "
*"Bohemica verpa "See also
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List of mycologists Footnotes
References
* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-528324/Joseph-Schroeter Encyclopedia Brittanica]
*cite book|author=Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau|title= Die Geschichte der Mykologie
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