Theodor Rudolph Joseph Nitschke (26 July 1834, Breslau – 12 December 1883,

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) was a German

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and

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 ...

. He received his education in Breslau, obtaining his PhD in 1858. In 1860 he relocated to Münster, where in 1867 he was named professor of botany at the

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, also serving as director of the botanical academy and

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.JSTOR Global plants
(biography) In his earlier research he was interested in

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s such as the genus ''

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'' and the species ''

Drosera rotundifolia ''Drosera rotundifolia'', the round-leaved sundew, roundleaf sundew, or common sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes and fens. One of the most widespread sundew species, it has a circumboreal distribut ...

'' (common sundew), From the late 1860s, he focused on mycology, publishing significant works on the fungal class

Pyrenomycetes Sordariomycetes is a class of fungi in the subdivision Pezizomycotina (Ascomycota), consisting of 28 orders, 90 families, 1344 genera. Sordariomycetes is from the Latin sordes (filth) because some species grow in animal feces, though growth habit ...

. The fungal genera '' Acanthonitschkea'', '' Nitschkia'' and '' Nitschkiopsis'' are named in his honor.

Selected works

* "Commentatio anatomico-physiologica de Droserae rotundifoliae", (1858). * "Pyrenomycetes germanici", (1867 to 1870).OCLC WorldCat
Pyrenomycetes germanici

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nitschke, Theodor Rudolph Joseph 1834 births 1883 deaths Academic staff of the University of Münster Scientists from Wrocław 19th-century German botanists German mycologists People from the Province of Silesia

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