Franz Joseph Kallenbach

Franz Joseph Kallenbach (* August 21, 1893, † September 11, 1944 in Darmstadt ) was a German mycologist. His botanical and mycological author abbreviation is " Kallenb. ".

Kallenbach studied education at the Ernst- Ludwig- Seminar in Bensheim and then worked as a teacher in Darmstadt.

In addition to his professional Kallenbach was a prolific mycologist, which dealt among other things with the problem of fungal damage by building fungi such as dry rot. His main area of ​​research was the Dickröhrlingsverwandte ( boletes ), about which he published a monograph still used today, which was provided by his wife Maria Kallenbach with lifelike drawings. The monograph appeared in the series The fungi of Central Europe, whose founder and editor Kallenbach was.

Kallenbach was also an employee of the German Society for Mycology. Next, he was Director of the Hessian State Office for fungus and dry rot consulting and Mycological Institute of the German Society of Mycology.

Kallenbach and his wife came during an air raid on Darmstadt killed.