Julius Schäffer

Julius Schäffer ( born June 3, 1882 in Markgroningen, † October 21, 1944 in Weilheim in Oberbayern ) was a German teacher and mycologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Jul. Schäff. ".

Youth and Education

Julius Schäffer was born on 3 June 1882 in Markgroningen the eldest of four children of a family of innkeepers. Operated side of the restaurant his parents agriculture (wine, hops, farmland ). He attended from 1888 to 1891, the primary school and from 1891 as the best student of the elementary school, the Latin school in Markgroningen. Once a teacher had advised the parents desperately to make her son study, Schaffer was one of the six best in 1896 the country graduated in Stuttgart and was thus able for two years Visit the evangelical seminars in Schonthal and Urach. After graduating from high school in 1900 in Stuttgart Julius Schäffer studied from 1901 at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Tübingen theology and graduated in 1904 from the study with the theological service examination. Because he felt too young for the chaplain service and was impressed by the resulting progressive education movement, he decided on a career as a teacher. From 1906 to 1908 he worked as a teacher and educator at the German boarding school in Ilse castle on the resin, where he taught religion, German, geography and natural history. From Ilse castle Julius Schäffer took a job as a tutor in Dresden. During these years he undertook with the family in which he taught, traveled extensively, even abroad. Following this time Schäffer studied one semester in Trieste. In 1910 he laid the state exam for the higher school satisfaction ( note " with distinction" ) and completed until 1912 at the Real Gymnasium in Berlin -Grunewald clerkship. Immediately afterwards, he became a teacher in Potsdam. On December 28, 1912 Schäffer married his wife, Liesl, with which he. , Two daughters ( Rohtraut, born in 1975 and Heath Dorle, born 1912)

Working life

Julius Schäffer worked as a teacher of chemistry, biology and mathematics. As a representative of progressive education he undertook with his students extended study trips and was involved in the establishment of the then newly launched, unpopular with many teachers, walking day. In addition to the teaching profession itself Schäffer was intensely occupied with mushrooms, which he not only verbally described, but guided by his wife also painted. Through his mycological work, he was in personal and corresponded Contact Pilz researchers such as Hans Haas, Adalbert Ricken, Bruno Henning and Albert Pilat. Intensive Schäffer dealt with the classification of Mushroom Fungi, in particular the russulas and chestnut mushrooms. Schäffer found, among other things named after him Schäffer reaction, which can be used in the determination of mushrooms. The russulas he worked for the book series " The Mushrooms of Central Europe ".

Nazism rejected Schäffer, he was particularly affected by the forced racial science to have to teach. In 1939 he settled therefore retire for health reasons and moved with his wife to Diessen, where the couple had bought a house. There he works intensively with mycology, particularly with the genus Cortinarius, where he came into contact with, among others, Meinhard Moser. At the workshop for teachers in Weilheim in Oberbayern he held fungus courses from the students.

Death

On one of the excursions with the students inside of the teachers seminar in Weilheim found Schaeffer and his wife in the fall of 1944, greater amounts Bare knuckle pieces, which were then regarded as a good edible mushroom and Schaffer and his wife had also eaten in Potsdam often. Schaffer, who had actually developed an aversion to mushrooms, asked his wife to prepare the mushrooms and ate them with her for lunch. In the afternoon, symptoms presented a one mushroom poisoning. Due to the events of war, the local doctor had lost all the material for a gastric lavage the hospital in Weilheim was unavailable because of destroyed telephone lines and Schäffer could be laid only after two days of Weilheim due to lack of gasoline. There, it could not be helped and he died after seventeen days of suffering on 21 October 1944.

Swell

• H. Dörfelt, G. Jetschke: Dictionary of mycology. Spectrum, Heidelberg and Berlin, 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0920-9
• H. Dörfelt, H. Heklau: The history of mycology. Einhorn -Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1998, ISBN 3-927654-44-2
• L. Schaffer: Julius Schäffer as a person, as a friend of youth, as an educator, as a mycologist. Journal of Mycology, No. 3 /4, 1967, p 49

• Mycologist
• German
• Born in 1882
• Died in 1944
• Man