Károly Kalchbrenner

Hungarian mycologist

Károly Kalchbrenner

Born	(1807-05-05)5 May 1807 Pöttelsdorf, Sopron County, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Austria)
Died	6 June 1886(1886-06-06) (aged 79) Spišské Vlachy, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Slovakia)
Citizenship	Hungarian
Known for	Papers and descriptions of more than 400 fungi from Europe, Asia, Australia and South America
Awards	Genus Kalchbrenneriella named in his honour
Scientific career
Fields	Mycology
Author abbrev. (botany)	Kalchbr.

Károly Kalchbrenner (born 5 May 1807 in Pöttelsdorf, died 6 June 1886 in Spišské Vlachy) was a Hungarian mycologist. He trained in theology early in life and became a priest in Spišské Vlachy, north-eastern Slovakia. 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 in Victoria, Australia, John Medley Wood in South Africa, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke in England and Felix von Thümen in Austria. He was elected a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.

Taxa named

The genus Kalchbrenneriella was named in his honour.^[1]

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 Agaricus in 1882,^[2]^[3] and further descriptions of new fungi species in 1883.^[4]^[5]

Amanita effusa
Humidicutis lewelliniae
Lepista caffrorum
Uredo commelinae^[6]

Publications

Complete bibliography on Worldcat

The standard author abbreviation Kalchbr. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[7]

References

^ Paul Diederich (Autumn 2002) Kalchbrenneriella, a New Genus to Accommodate the Lichenicolous Hyphomycete Torula cyanescens The Bryologist, 105 (3) pp. 411-14
^ Kalchbrenner, C. (1882). "Definitions of some new Australian fungi". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 7: 104–106. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.22735.
^ Kalchbrenner, C. (1882). "Fungi aliquot Australiae orientalis". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 7: 563.
^ Kalchbrenner, C. (1883). "Description of two new fungi". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 8: 175. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.28642.
^ Maiden, J. H. (1908). "Records of Australian botanists". Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 42. C. Potter, Acting. Govt. Printer.
^ Kalchbrenner K. 1882) Grevillea 11(no. 57): p. 24
^ International Plant Names Index. Kalchbr.

External links

Biography on Cybertruffle
Biography in Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
Biography in Hungarian with picture^{[permanent dead link]}

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Hungarian. (August 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Hungarian article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Hungarian Wikipedia article at [[:hu:Kalchbrenner Károly]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|hu|Kalchbrenner Károly}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.