Ladislav Hagara Explained

Ladislav Hagara
Birth Date:1944 1, df=y
Birth Place:Nováky, Slovakia
Occupation:Mycologist, writer
Notablework:Otto's Encyclopedia of Mushrooms
Language:Slovak

Ladislav Hagara (born January 15, 1944) is a Slovak mycologist,[1] [2] writer and author of mycological publications. He held the position of the Chairman of the Slovak Mycological Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and described a new fungal species variety.

Biography

Hagara graduated in journalism at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1968. However he was banned from pursuing his profession as a journalist on ideological grounds—based on articles he wrote protesting the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he was registered as a "hostile person" by the ŠtB secret police. Instead he worked as an editor and a director of a publishing house.[3]

In 2003, he successfully defended his dissertation on the topic of The Hyphodontia Genus in Slovakia (Basidiomycota, Corticiaceae).[4]

His mushroom field guides have sold over half a million copies[5] across more than 35 editions[6] (in addition to Slovak also in Czech, French, German, Dutch and Hungarian),[7] and include Otto's Encyclopedia of Mushrooms, a field guide to mushrooms growing in the territory of Slovakia and Czechia, containing 4,200 photographs and descriptions of 3,230 species. The Slovak names of more than 1000 of these species were created by Hagara. As a part of his mycological scientific research, he has collected and processed more than 15,000 herbarium specimen of mushrooms. In 1990 he described and published a new variety of Infundibulicybe gibba var. adstringens.[8] The standard author abbreviation Hagara is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9] He has also published several photo books about mushrooms.

He is a member of the Slovak Writers' Society. In 1998 he became the chairman of the Mushroom Research Society, he is a member (and between 2015 and 2018 the chairman[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]) of the Slovak Mycological Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, as well as a member of mycological societies in Czechia, Austria and Germany.

Hagara has also written several social-justice-themed short stories, and novels set in Slovak research institutions.

Publications

Fiction

Mycological works

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Významný mykológ Ladislav Hagara mapoval výskyt húb na hornej Nitre . . 29 December 2023 . sk.
  2. Web site: Huby ako ich nepoznáme . Slovak Academy of Sciences . 29 December 2023 . sk.
  3. Web site: Ladislav Hagara: Životopis autora = Ladislav Hagara: Biography of the author . . 28 December 2023 . sk.
  4. Web site: Ladislav Hagara: životopis = Ladislav Hagar: Curriculum vitae. Databáze knih . www.books.sk. 28 December 2023 . sk.
  5. Janitor . Anton . December 2019 . PhDr. Ladislav Hagara, PhD. sedemdesiatpäťročný . 75 years of Dr. Ladislav Hagara . sk . 1335-7689 . Spravodajca Slovenskej mykologickej spoločnosti = Newsletter of the Slovak Mycological Society. . 2019 . 51 . 19–27 . 28 December 2023.
  6. Zbieranie húb . Rádio Regina of Slovenský rozhlas (Slovak Radio) . 29 December 2023 . sk.
  7. Web site: MST Library . Mycological Society of Toronto . 29 December 2023 . en.
  8. Web site: Clitocybe gibba var. adstringens Hagara . Index Fungorum . 28 December 2023 . en.
  9. Web site: Hagara, Ladislav (1944–) . . 28 December 2023 . en.
  10. Ladislav Hagara: Huby nielen ako hobby . Veda na dosah CVTISR . 28 December 2023 . 23 June 2017 . sk.
  11. Web site: Mykológ Ladislav Hagara rozšíril najväčšiu encyklopédiu húb na svete . . 29 December 2023 . sk.
  12. Web site: Vlaňajším najvzácnejším nálezom mykológov je huba ostňovec konzolovitý . . 29 December 2023 . sk.
  13. Web site: Vedecká kaviareň: huby v prírode a v našom živote . Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Slovak Republic . 29 December 2023 . sk.
  14. Web site: Veda v centre: Huby v prírode a v našom živote . . 29 December 2023 . sk.
  15. Web site: Výpis z registra – aktuálny . Register mimovládnych neziskových organizácií . 29 December 2023 . sk.
  16. Web site: Ladislav Hagara – ocenenia . . 28 December 2023 . sk.

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