Rudolf Aderhold

Rudolf Ferdinand Theodor Aderhold ( born February 12, 1865 in Frankenhausen, † March 17, 1907 in Berlin- Dahlem ) was a German mycologist. His specialty was mainly fungal diseases of fruit trees. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Aderh. "

Life

Aderhold came from a Thuringian family of artisans, his father was a butcher. In 1895 he married Anna Elise Clementine Haccius, the couple had a son.

Work

Aderhold studied in Berlin and Jena botany in Jena he was a student and later an assistant to Ernst Stahl. In 1888 he published his dissertation on " Contribution to the knowledge teaching forces in the movement of lower organisms ". He then moved to the School of orchards and vineyards in Geisenheim 1893 and then as an independent director of the botanical department of the Experimental Station of the Institute of Pomology in Proskau (Silesia ).

1901 moved Aderhold to Berlin as head of the botanical laboratory of the Biological Department of Agriculture and Forestry at the Imperial Health Office. From this he created until 1905, the Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, which until 2008, most recently as Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, existed. Aderhold was its first director until his death in 1907.

Aderhold erstbeschrieb during his research on phythopathogenen mushrooms more than 20 new species of fungi, 1905, he worked with William Ruhland some Sclerotinia in the work "On the knowledge of fruit tree Sklerotinien ". Many of the taxa described by him have since been synonymized or have now been made as to the teleomorph anamorphs, but some have still stock. Among the today accepted types include eg Mycosphaerella Cerasella or Venturia pyrina.

Works (selection)

• Contribution to the knowledge teaching forces in the movement of lower organisms, 1888, Dissertation
• Some new fungi, 1905
• To the knowledge of fruit tree Sklerotinien: Smaller Mittheilungen, 1905 ( with William Ruhland )

Evidence

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