Felix von Thümen

Felix Karl Albert Ernst Joachim Freiherr[a] von Thümen (6 February 1839, Dresden – 13 October 1892 Teplitz-Schönau) was a German botanist and mycologist.

Life

Felix von Thümen graduated from the Gymnasium in Dresden and entered the Prussian army at the age of 19, but soon retired due to an injury incurred by a fall from his horse. After a short stint in agriculture he had to abandon the management of his family estates and devoted the rest of his life to botanical and mycological research. Influenced mainly by Ludwig Reichenbach he devoted most of his interest to the study of fungi. In 1876 he became a research assistant at the chemico-physiological research station in Klosterneuburg, a position he occupied for the rest of his life. The position afforded him considerable freedom in choosing his domicile, so that he lived for various periods in Vienna, Berlin and Gorizia. He suffered from a severe heart disease, for which he repeatedly visited the spas of Teplitz-Schönau, where he died at the age of 54. He was a fellow of the Royal Prussian Academy of Science.

Work

His early fame rested mainly on his morphological acumen, which resulted in him being sought out to provide systematic treatments of fungi made by a large number of botanical collectors in Austria, Bavaria, Portugal, Siberia, Egypt, South Africa, Australia, North America and Argentina. His interest later turned to plant pathology, in particular to fungal diseases of grapevines and fruit trees. Among a multitude of publications the more prominent are Fungi nonnulli austriaci, Fungi of the Grapevine, (1877) Fungi of the Fruitplants (1888). He published several exsiccata works, among them Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum and Mycotheca universalis.[1][2]

Botanists Albert Julius Otto Penzig and Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1898, circumscribed the fungi genus of Thuemenella, which was named in his honour.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Regarding personal names: Freiherr was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Baron. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine forms are Freifrau and Freiin.

References

  1. ^ "Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum: IndExs ExsiccataID=23396611". IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Mycotheca universalis: IndExs ExsiccataID=746874034". IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  3. ^ Penzig AJO, Saccardo PA (1897). "Diagnoses fungorum novorum in insula Java collectorum. Ser. II". Malpighia. 11: 491–530.
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index. Thüm.

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