Hanns Kreisel

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Hanns Kreisel (16 July 1931 – 18 January 2017) was a German mycologist and professor emeritus.

He was born in Leipzig in 1931. Kreisel was a professor at the University of Greifswald. His field was the classification of fungi, where he has studied this group of organisms not only in Germany but in almost all continents, as in Brazil, Seychelles, Vietnam, Cuba and Syria. He had succeeded with his first collaboration to develop a scientifically sound and current fungal flora of Yemen. Kreisel also specialized in the fungal groups of gut fungi.

Kreisel was also the editor of several international scientific journals. He died in January 2017 at Wolgast.[1]

The standard author abbreviation Kreisel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Eponymous taxa[]

  • Dominik 1965
  • U.Braun 1991
  • (Vasyag.) U.Braun 1991
  • Schmied. 1989
  • U.Braun & Crous 2002
  • G.Hirsch 1992
  • M.Scholler 1996
  • G.Moreno, E.Horak & Altés 2002

References[]

  1. ^ Lindequist, Ulrike; Schauer, Frieder (2017). "In Memoriam: Prof. Dr. Hanns Kreisel (1931–2017)". International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms. 19 (3): 277–278. doi:10.1615/IntJMedMushrooms.v19.i3.100. PMID 28605343.
  2. ^ IPNI.  Kreisel.
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