Paul Konrad (1 April 1877 in

Le Locle Le Locle (; german: Luggli) is a Communes of Switzerland, municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is situated in the Jura Mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It is the third smallest city in Switz ...

– 19 December 1948 in

Neuchâtel , neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier , twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...

) was a Swiss

geometrician A geometer is a mathematician whose area of study is geometry. Some notable geometers and their main fields of work, chronologically listed, are: 1000 BCE to 1 BCE * Baudhayana (fl. c. 800 BC) – Euclidean geometry, geometric algebra * ...

and amateur

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

. From 1902 he was an employee of the Compagnie des Tramways de Neuchâtel, of which, he served as a director from 1938 to 1948.BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications In 1918 he became a member of the

Société mycologique de France The Société mycologique de France (Mycological Society of France), often known by the abbreviation SMF, is an association linking French and French-speaking mycologists. History The society was founded in 1884 in Épinal in the Vosges by thr ...

, and for a number of years was associated with the Société linnéenne de Lyon (1927–48). In 1932 he received an honorary doctorate in sciences from the

University of Neuchâtel The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is a French-speaking university based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The university has four faculties (schools) and more than a dozen institutes, including arts and human sciences, natural sciences, law and eco ...

Selected writings

* ''Notes critiques sur quelques champignons du Jura'' (4 parts, 1923–29) – Critique on some mushrooms of the Jura. * ''Révision des Hyménomycètes de France et des pays limitrophes''; with

André Maublanc André Pierre Jules Maublanc (24 July 1880, in Nantes – 30 April 1958, in Paris) was a French mycologist and plant pathologist. Beginning in 1902, he worked as a préparateur at the Station de Pathologie végétale in Paris. In 1912, he traveled ...

(1924) – Revision on

Hymenomycetes Hymenomycetes was formerly the largest taxonomic group of fungi within the division Basidiomycota, but the term is no longer taxonomically relevant. Many familiar fungi belong to this class, including bracket fungi and toadstools. This class conta ...

of France and neighboring countries. * ''Icones Selectae Fungorum''; with André Maublanc (6 parts, 1924–27). * ''Note sur le Boletus pulverulentus Opatowski''; with

René Maire René Charles Joseph Ernest Maire (29 May 1878, Lons-le-Saunier – 24 November 1949) was a French botanist and mycologist. His major work was the ''Flore de l'Afrique du Nord'' in 16 volumes published posthumously in 1953. He collected plants fro ...

(1927) – On ''

Boletus pulverulentus ''Cyanoboletus pulverulentus'', commonly known as the ink stain bolete, is an edible mushroom, edible bolete mushroom. It is found in deciduous forest, deciduous and mixed forests, particularly on moist soil on slopes and under beech and oak trees ...

''. * ''Les Agaricales. Classification, revision des espèces, iconographie, comestibilité'', with André Maublanc (1948) –

Agaricales The fungal order Agaricales, also known as gilled mushrooms (for their distinctive gills) or euagarics, contains some of the most familiar types of mushrooms. The order has 33 extant families, 413 genera, and over 13,000 described species, alo ...

; classification. revision of species, iconography, edibility. In 1949 mycologist Eugéne Mayor published Konrad's necrology in the journal "''Bulletin de la Société neuchâteloise des sciences naturelles''".Paul Konrad : 1877 - 1948
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Konrad, Paul 1877 births 1948 deaths People from Le Locle Swiss mycologists