Aurel Dermek

Aurel Dermek (born 25 July 1925, died 15 April 1989) was a Slovak mycologist, writer, photographer and illustrator.

Biography Dermek spent his childhood in Brodské, and later attended high school in the nearby Malacky. After abandoning the pursuit of a technical college degree, Dermek worked as an industrial designer in and around Bratislava. A self-taught mycologist, his interest in the field grew from a hobby into a secondary profession. Throughout his career, which spanned 24 years, he published over 50 scientific papers and 16 books, translated into multiple foreign languages. In addition to the above, he dedicated his time to producing visual images of fungi: altogether he published 869 watercolor plates, usually containing multiple species per plate and multiple fruiting bodies per species, as well as 759 color photographs and 432 pieces of line art. After retiring in 1985, he spent the rest of his days in Brodské.

The standard author abbreviation Dermek is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

New taxa On his own and/or in cooperation with colleagues, especially with Albert Pilát, Aurel Dermek reclassified 17 fungal taxa (including the creation of Rubinoboletus as a genus and Boletus erythropus discolor as a subspecies), as well as described and published the following new taxa: Species 1973: Boletus pinophilus Pilát & Dermek 1974: Leccinum piceinum Pilát & Dermek 1974: Leccinum subcinnamomeum Pilát & Dermek 1974: Leccinum thalassinum Pilát & Dermek 1979: Boletus subappendiculatus Dermek, Lazebn. & J. Veselský 1981: Leccinum crocistipidosum H. Engel & Dermek Varieties 1973: Boletus pinophilus var. pinophilus Pilát & Dermek 1973: Xerocomus chrysenteron var. robustus Dermek 1983: Boletus edulis var. arenarius H. Engel, Krieglst. & Dermek 1984: Boletus erythropus var. rubropileus Dermek 1985: Macrolepiota mastoidea var. atrobrunnea Dermek Forms 1973: Boletus pinophilus f. pinophilus Pilát & Dermek

Publications 1967: Aurel Dermek: Naše huby (Our Fungi) 1974: Aurel Dermek, Albert Pilát: Hríbovité huby (Fungi of the Boletaceae Family) 1976: Aurel Dermek: Huby lesov, poli a lúk (Fungi of Forests, Fields and Meadows) 1977: Aurel Dermek: Atlas našich húb (Field Guide of our Mushrooms) 1980: Aurel Dermek, Pavel Lizoň: Malý atlas húb (Small Field Guide of Mushrooms)