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Bernhard Auerswald

1818 – 1870

German botanist and mycologist

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Lived 1818 – 1870 (aged 51–52). Bernhard Auerswald was a German botanist, mycologist, university teacher and teacher.

Bernhard Auerswald (March 19, 1818 – June 30, 1870 ) was a German mycologist and professor from Leipzig. He participated as chief correspondent of botany, sending specimens that his colleague Heinrich Moritz Willkomm collected and sent to him from his expeditions.

Published works Botanische Unterhaltungen zum Verständniss der heimathlichen Flora. Leipzig: H. Mendelssohn, 1858 Anleitung zum rationellen Botanisiren. Leipzig: Veit & Comp., 1860 Unsere Heimats-Kräuter als Hausmittel: Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller heilwirkenden Pflanzen und Kräuter deren Fundort, praktische Verwendung und Verwertung in den verschiedensten Krankheitsfällen des menschlichen Lebens. Nach den neuesten und besten Quellen bearbeitet. Dresden 1860 Pyrenomycetes novi ex herbario Heufleriano. Wien: C. Ueberreuter, 1868 Pyrenomycetum aliquot novae species tirolenses. 1868 Synopsis Pyrenomycetum europaeorum. Dresden: Heinrich 1869

The abbreviation Auersw. is used when citing Auerswald as the author in scientific classification of vegetables.

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1870
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Leipzig University
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Auersw.

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German botanist and mycologist (1818–1870)

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Bernhard Auerswald was born on 19 March 1818 in Leipzig.

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Bernhard Auerswald died in 1870.

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Bernhard Auerswald was a botanist, mycologist, university teacher and teacher.

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Bernhard Auerswald was German.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Bernhard Auerswald

· Wikidata: Q5727033

· DBpedia: Bernhard Auerswald

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