Władysław Wojewoda Explained

Władysław Wojewoda
Birth Date:20 May 1932
Birth Place:Przemyśl, Poland
Death Place:Kraków, Poland
Resting Place:Rakowicki Cemetery
Fields:Botany; mycology
Workplaces:Jagiellonian University, Polish Academy of Sciences
Alma Mater:Jagiellonian University
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Author Abbrev Bot:Wojewoda

Władysław Wojewoda (20 May 1932, Przemyśl – 3 November 2010, Kraków) was a Polish biologist, academic professor, expert in botanics and mycology.

Life

He graduated from Biology and Earth Sciences Faculty of Jagiellonian University in Kraków and began work on Department of Plant Systematics and Geography. He earned a PhD with his work on “Macromycetes” of the Ojców National Park, in 1989 became a professor of nature sciences. In 1969–2003 he worked in W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He's an author of over 300 papers, including monographies.

His most important achievements are:

He established a mushroom collection in Institute of Botany that grew to over 53000 specimens. Its one of the most important fungi collections in Poland. He was a lecturer and thesis supervisor for MsC and PhD candidates. He studied fungi of Babia Góra, Gorce, na Spiš Magura, Ojcowski Park Narodowy, Tatra National Park, Niepołomice Forest and North Korea. He collaborated with Czechoslovakian mycologists. Together with a fellow mycologist they prepared an identification key of Polish macrofungi, his last work was „Laricifomes officinalis in the Gorce Mountains (S Poland)”.

He was buried on Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków.

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