Gábor Bohus Explained

Gábor Bohus
Birth Date:4 July 1914
Birth Place:Budapest, Hungary
Death Place:Budapest, Hungary
Nationality:Hungarian
Fields:Biology, Mycology, Museologist

Gábor Bohus (1914–2005) was a Hungarian mycologist born on 4 July 1914 in Budapest.[1]

Early life

Gábor Bohus was born to Paula Kitschalesz and Róbert Bohus on 4 July 1914. Paula maintained a garden at home and Róbert was a student of László Szemere's mushroom study course so Gábor was exposed to the plants and mushrooms that he would spend his life studying from a young age. He graduated from the Lutheran high school in Fasor and went on to study at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Pázmány Péter University from 1932 to 1937 where he studied botany, chemistry and mineralogy. His 1937 doctoral dissertation explored artificial breeding of Clasterosporium carpophilum with mushrooms.[2]

Gábor then joined the Museum of Natural Sciences in 1937 and became an unpaid intern at the botanical garden before being granted a scholarship. Between 1938 and 1945 he was called up for military service several times and spent a total of 45 months in service however he continued his research into mushrooms during the war and kept a microscope with him even whilst in service. Despite his military service he was still able to publish dozens of papers during this time.

Career

Gábor became the deputy head of the Botanical Garden at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences after World War II but the mushroom collection had been lost, despite being removed to the countryside to try to prevent it from being destroyed by bombing. He therefore set to rebuilding the collection of preserved specimens along with Lórántné Babos and developed the modified Herpell method of preserving mushroom specimens.[3] Margit Babos worked under Bohus and used this method to prepare over 20,000 mushroom specimens for the macrofungi collection.[4] This method is still used by the Hungarian Natural History Museum today and a large amount of the macroscopic fungi specimens it holds were prepared by Bohus and Babos.[5]

Gábor worked at the botanical gardens and museum for nearly 68 years before retiring in 1974 due to hearing loss caused by high blood pressure. He continued to regularly visit and work with mushrooms until his death in 2005 aged 90.

Species described

Bohus published numerous papers on Agaricus species and was responsible for describing many species including:

The species variant Tricholoma populinum var. bohusii is named for Gábor Bohus as a commemoration of his work in Hungarian mycology.[6] Other species named for Bohus include Lepista bohusii which was described based on Bohus' variant Lepista luscina var. irinoides,[7] Agaricus bohusii[8] and Leucoagaricus bohusii (originally Leucocoprinus bohusi).[9]

Publications

During his life Bohus authored or co-authored a number of books and journals on plants and mushrooms. This is a partial list:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bohus Gábor PLM Namespace . 2023-03-06 . PLM Namespace . en-US.
  2. 2005 . Emlékezés Bohus Gáborra (Remembering Gábor Bohus) . Mikológiai Közlemények – Clusiana . 44 . 3 . 5–34 . gombanet.hu.
  3. Babos . Lorándné . 1966 . A kalaposgombák preparálása . Mikológiai Közlemények . 1966 . 1 . 27–32.
  4. Web site: Babos Lórántné Greskovits Margit . 2023-03-06 . www.vadaszszotar.com.
  5. Web site: 2015-03-28 . Macrofungi Collection Hungarian Natural History Museum . 2023-03-06 . www.nhmus.hu . en.
  6. Ø vstedal . Dag O. . Gremmen . Niek J.M. . 2007-08-01 . Additions and corrections to the lichen mycobiota of the subantarctic Prince Edward Islands . Nova Hedwigia . 85 . 1–2 . 249–257 . 10.1127/0029-5035/2007/0085-0249 . 0029-5035.
  7. Ballero . M . Contu . M . 1991 . Ecologia E Tassonomia Del Genere Lepista (Fr.:fr.) W.g. Sm. (Agaricales, Tricholomataceae) In Sardegna *** . Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. Nat., Mem. . B . 98 . 249–264.
  8. Web site: Species Fungorum - Agaricus bohusii . 2023-03-07 . www.speciesfungorum.org.
  9. Web site: Species Fungorum - Leucoagaricus bohusii . 2023-03-07 . www.speciesfungorum.org.
  10. Web site: Mesterséges tenyésztési kísérletek a Clasterosporium carpophilum (Lév.) Aderh. gombával WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  11. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Über die Giftigkeit der "Weissen" Clitocyben. (Clitocybe corda Schulz.) . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  12. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Enumeratio critica Boletorum Hungariae . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  13. Web site: Magyarország kalaposgombáinak meghatározó kézikönyve. Irta: Bohus G., Kalmár Zoltán, Ubrizsy Gábor. (A rajzokat Lakatos Mária készítette.) WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  14. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Növénytársulások, életfeltételek, a gombafajok száma és mennyisége a budaihegységi Hársbokorhegyen és környékén . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  15. Web site: A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 3. (Budapest 1953) Library Hungaricana . 2023-03-06 . library.hungaricana.hu.
  16. Web site: Magyarország virágtalan növényeinek kézikönyve WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  17. Web site: Magyarország virágtalan növényeinek határozó. Rész 2, Magyarország nagygombái a kalaposgombák kivételével WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  18. Web site: Magyarország nagygombái a kalaposgombák kivételével : II. rész WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  19. Web site: A kalaposgombákra (Agaricales) vonatkozó rendszertani és ökológiai kutatások eredményei 1 WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  20. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  21. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  22. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Fenolszármazékok fungicid hatása . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  23. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - On the drought-resistance of Fungi . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  24. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - The effects of temperature and pressure on fungi causing wood-decay . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  25. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - On the results of researches concerning the temperature claims of macroscopic fungi . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  26. Web site: Magyarország kultúrflórája 1/A., 1/B. köt Virágtalanok WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  27. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Notes on the occurrence in Hungary of Russula species, with regard to their range in Europe . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  28. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Psalliota studies. I.: Critical species, critical notes . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  29. Web site: A termesztett csiperke : 39 ábrával WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  30. Web site: Erdő-mező gombái WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org.
  31. Web site: Virágtalanok. Füzet F/1-F/2, Függelék WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  32. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Der Formenkreis des Agaricus (Psalliota) bisporus (Lange) Treschow und die Benützung der wildwachsenden Formen (Sorten) beim Züchtungsverfahren . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  33. Web site: Fragmenta Botanica - Leucopaxillus-Arten in Ungarn . 2023-03-07 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  34. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Agaricus studies II. . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  35. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Interessantere Cortinarius-Arten aus dem Karpaten-Becken . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  36. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Agaricus studies III. . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  37. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Hebeloma studies I. . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  38. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Soil acidity and the occurrence of fungi in deciduous forests . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  39. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Agaricus studies, IV. . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  40. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Agaricus studies, V. . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  41. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Agaricus studies, VI. . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  42. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Interessantere Cortinarius-Arten aus dem Karpaten-Becken, II. . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  43. Web site: Fungorum rariorum icones coloratae. 8 WorldCat.org . 2023-03-07 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  44. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Hebeloma studies, II. (Basidiomycetes, Cortinariaceae) . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  45. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Agaricus studies, VIII. (Basidiomycetes, Agaricaceae) . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  46. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Interessante Cortinarius-Arten aus dem Karpaten-Becken (Agaricales, Cortinariaceae), III. . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  47. Web site: Studia botanica hungarica - Some results of systematical and ecological research on Agaricales, VII. . 2023-03-07 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  48. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Agaricus studies, IX. (Basidiomycetes, Agaricaceae). Agaricus flora in the Carpathian Basin . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  49. Web site: Studia botanica hungarica - Some results of systematical and ecological research on Agaricales, VIII . 2023-03-07 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  50. Web site: Studia botanica hungarica - Some results of systematical and ecological research on Agaricales, IX. . 2023-03-07 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  51. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Agaricus studies, X. (Basidiomycetes, Agaricaceae) . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  52. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Agaricus studies, XI. (Basidiomycetes, Agaricaceae). A monographical key . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  53. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Zwei neue Pilztaxa aus Ungarn (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales) . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  54. Web site: Studia botanica hungarica - Genetic resource collection of macrofungi in Hungary . 2023-03-07 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  55. Web site: Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici - Two new fungus species from Hungary (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales) . 2023-03-06 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  56. Web site: Studia botanica hungarica - Diagnoses latinae of the new subsections of the subgenus Agaricus . 2023-03-07 . publication.nhmus.hu.
  57. Web site: Mikológiai közlemények - Vizsgálatok az immunstimuláns Lentinus cyathiformis (Schff.: Fr.) Bres. ökológiájára vonatkozóan 1. .
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