Paul Dietel Explained

Paul Dietel (15 February 1860, Greiz  - 30 October 1947, Zwickau) was a German mycologist.

He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Göttingen, and afterwards worked as a schoolteacher in Greiz, Leipzig, Reichenbach im Vogtland and Glauchau.^[1]

He specialized in research of rust fungi (Uredinales) - from 1887 to 1943 he was the author of 150 scientific papers on rusts.^[2] His extensive treatment of rust fungi in Engler and Prantl's Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien was recognized as its definitive account for many years.^[3]

In 1897 Paul Christoph Hennings named the genus Dietelia (family Pucciniosiraceae) in his honor.^[4]

Selected writings

• Beiträge zur Morphologie und Biologie der Uredineen, 1887  - On the morphology and biology of Uredinales.
• "New Californian Uredineae" (published in English, 1893).
• "Descriptions of new species of Uredineae and Ustilagineae, with remarks on some other species" (published in English, 1893).
• "New North American Uredineae" (published in English, 1895).^[5]

External links

• Bibliography of scientific works Cyberliber / Cybertruffle.

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=KHlBAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Paul+Dietel%22+1860&pg=PA29 Thomas Münzer in Zwickau und die "Zwickauer Propheten": wissenschaftliche ...
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=IFD4_VFRDdUC&dq=%22Dietel%2C+Paul%22+1860&pg=PA208 Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi
3. http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000390330 Dietel, Paul (1860-1947)
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=zIfVxKlSFJwC&dq=%22Dietelia%22+%22Dietel%22&pg=PA291 Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum
5. http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ADietel%2C+Paul%2C&qt=hot_author WorldCat Search