Bernhard Auerswald (1818–1870) was a

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mycologist and professor from

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. He participated as chief correspondent of botany, sending specimens that his colleague

Heinrich Moritz Willkomm Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (29 June 1821, Herwigsdorf – 26 August 1895, Schloss Wartenberg in Wartenberg am Rollberg, Bohemia) was a German academic and botanist. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, later being named a prof ...

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.Bernhard Auerswald "International Plant Names Index (PII)", Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Herbarium of Harvard University and National Herbarium Australiano (eds.), http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearch?id=31082-1&query_type=by_id&output_format=object_view

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Auerswald, Bernhard 19th-century German botanists German mycologists 1818 births 1870 deaths Scientists from Leipzig