Joseph Schröter

Joseph Schröter (14 March 1837 – 12 December 1894) was a German mycologist and medical doctor. He wrote several books and texts, and discovered and described many species of flora and fungi. He also spent around fifteen years, from 1871 to 1886, as a military doctor, particularly in the Franco-Prussian War, in places such as Spandau, Rastatt and Breslau, and rising to the rank of colonel.

Life In 1855 Schröter chose to study medicine in Breslau, Lower Silesia (Wrocław, Poland since 1945), but in 1856, he transferred to the Friedrich-Wilhelm Academy in Berlin, Prussia (Germany did not unite into a single nation state until 1871). He died in 1894, after returning from a scientific expedition to Turkey.

Genera described by Schröter Schröter described many genera, including: Aleurodiscus Ceratiomyxa Clavulina Daedaleopsis Dicranophora Hygrophoropsis Plasmopara Sclerospora Sorosphaera Synchephalastrum