Franz Oberwinkler

Franz Oberwinkler
Born 22 May 1939
Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria
Nationality German
Fields Mycology
Alma mater Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Doctoral advisor Josef Poelt
Known for Basidiomycete mycology
Notable awards IMA de Bary medal 2010
Author abbrev. (botany) Oberw.

Franz Oberwinkler (22 May 1939 Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria) is a German mycologist, specialising in the fungal morphology, ecology and phylogeny of basidiomycetes.

Oberwinkler earned his PhD in 1965 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich studying under Josef Poelt. From 1967 to 1974 he was a research assistant and lecturer at the Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Munich, becoming professor in 1972. Between 1968–1969 Oberwinkler was Scientific Expert of the Food and Agriculture Organization at the Instituto Forestal Latino-Americano in Mérida, Venezuela.

In 1974 he was appointed as successor to Karl Mägdefrau as Chair of Systematic Botany and Mycology at the University of Tübingen and from 1974 until his retirement in 2008 he was head of the University's botanic garden, Botanischer Garten der Universität Tübingen.[1] In 2002 he became the founding editor-in-chief of the academic journal, Mycological Progress. Between 1962 and 2010 he authored and co-authored 340 publications. Oberwinkler retired in 2008 becoming professor emeritus of the university's 'Organismic Botany Group' and he continues as editor-in-chief of the journal.[2]

He is the recipient of several awards, including the de Bary medal of the International Mycological Association (IMA) in 2010.[3] Several fungal taxa are named in his honour including the species Amanita oberwinklerana,[4] Sphaerobasidioscypha oberwinkleri,[5] Thecaphora oberwinkleri,[6] Uromyces oberwinklerianus,[7] and the genus Oberwinkleria.[8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Institut für Evolution und Ökologie der Universität Tübingen" (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Franz Oberwinkler". University of Tübingen. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Hawksworth, David L, ed. (December 2010). "IMA Medals awarded at IMC9 - De Bary Medal: Franz Oberwinkler" (pdf). IMA Fungus (IMA) 1 (2): 15.
  4. ↑ Yang ZL, Doi Y. (1999). "A contribution to the knowledge of Amanita (Amanitaceae, Agaricales) in Japan". Bulletin of the National Science Museum Tokyo 25 (3): 107–130.
  5. ↑ Agerer R. (1983). "Typusstudien an cyphelloiden Pilzen IV. Lachnellula Fr. s.l". Mitteilungen aus der Botanischen Staatssammlung München (in German) 19: 164–33 (see p. 298).
  6. ↑ Vánky K. (1988). "Taxonomical studies on Ustilaginales. II". Mycotaxon 32: 245–251.
  7. ↑ Berndt R. (2004). "A checklist of Costa Rican rust fungi". In Agerer R, Piepenbring M, Blanz P. (eds.). Frontiers in Basidiomycote Mycology. IHW-Verlag. pp. 185–236 (see p. 233). ISBN 3-930167-57-3.
  8. ↑ Vánky K, Bauer R. (1995). "Oberwinkleria, a new genus of Ustilaginales". Mycotaxon 53: 361–8.
  9. ↑ "Author Query for 'Oberw.'". International Plant Names Index.
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