Hans Sydow

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Hans Sydow
Born(1879-01-29)29 January 1879
Died6 June 1946(1946-06-06) (aged 67)
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsMycology
Author abbrev. (botany)Syd.

Hans Sydow (29 January 1879 – 6 June 1946) was a German

lichenologist, Paul Sydow (1851–1925).[1]

Career

Hans Sydow worked at the Dresdner Bank in Berlin between 1904 and 1937 rising to divisional manager in 1922.[2] Before, during and after this time he also pursued a career as a mycologist. Together with his father he co-authored many works before his father's death in 1925, most substantial of which were four volumes of monographs on the Uredinales (now called Pucciniales), Monographia Uredinearum seu specierum omnium ad hunc usque diem descriptio et adumbratio systematica (Monograph on the Uredinales, description of known species and outline of systematics). The first volume covered the genus Puccinia and the second the genus Uromyces. The third volume described the systematics and taxonomy used to classify the family and provided a key as well as further descriptions of other genera including Gymnosporangium and Phragmidium.[3] The final volume published covered the related genera; Peridermium, Aecidium, Monosporidium, Roestelia, Caeoma, Uredo and Mapea.

His manuscripts and extensive collection were burned in Berlin in 1943.[4][5]

Hans Sydow was a prolific author (or coauthor) of new fungal species, having

editor in chief until his death in 1946.[7]

Honours

Following Sydow's death, Annales Mycologici was retitled with the prefix Sydowia in his honour.[8] In the following issue, Franz Petrak, who had published papers with Sydow since the early 1920s, succeeded Sydow as editor in chief and published an obituary in the subsequent volume.[9]

Several taxa of fungi were named in his honour;[10]

A subspecies of

Bryum capillare received the suffix "sydowii" by Czech botanist, Josef Podpěra.[4][12]

Selected publications

Books

  • Sydow, Paul; Sydow, Hans (1904). Monographia Uredinearum seu specierum omnium ad hunc usque diem descriptio et adumbratio systematica. The genus Puccinia. Vol. 1. Liepzig: Borntraeger. pp. 1–972.
  • ——; —— (1910). Monographia Uredinearum seu specierum omnium ad hunc usque diem descriptio et adumbratio systematica. The genus Uromyces. Vol. 2. Liepzig: Borntraeger. pp. 1–396.
  • ——; —— (1915). Monographia Uredinearum seu specierum omnium ad hunc usque diem descriptio et adumbratio systematica. Fasciculus I.:Puccineaceae. Vol. 3. Liepzig: Borntraeger. pp. 1–728.
  • ——; —— (1924). Monographia Uredinearum seu specierum omnium ad hunc usque diem descriptio et adumbratio systematica. Uredineae Imperfecti (Peridermium, Aecidium, Monosporidium, Roestelia, Caeoma, Uredo, Mapea). Vol. 4. Liepzig: Borntraeger. pp. 1–670.

References

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  4. ^ a b Frahm, Jan-Peter; Eggers, Jens (2001). Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen [Encyclopedia of German Bryology] (in German). Vol. 1. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 516.
  5. ^ "Biografie" (in German). ETH Zurich. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
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  7. ^ "Annales mycologici". Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Front cover". Sydowia. 1 (1/3). Borntraeger. 1947.
  9. ^ Petrak, Franz (1948). "Hans Sydow. 1879 - 1946". Sydowia (in German). II (1–6). Borntraeger: 1.
  10. S2CID 246307410
    . Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  11. ^ "Sydowiellina - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  12. ^ Podpěra, Josef (1954). Conspectus Muscorum Europaeorum. Prague: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. p. 351.
  13. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Syd.

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