Władysław Wojewoda (20 May 1932,

Przemyśl Przemyśl (; yi, פשעמישל, Pshemishl; uk, Перемишль, Peremyshl; german: Premissel) is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was pr ...

– 3 November 2010, Kraków) was a Polish

biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...

, academic professor, expert in

botanics 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

mycology Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans, including as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, as ...

Life

He graduated from Biology and Earth Sciences Faculty of

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

in Kraków and began work on Department of Plant Systematics and Geography. He earned a PhD with his work on “Macromycetes” of the Ojców National Park, in 1989 became a professor of nature sciences. In 1969–2003 he worked in W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...

. He's an author of over 300 papers, including monographies. His most important achievements are: * Monography of ''

Auriculariales The Auriculariales are an order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes. Species within the order were formerly referred to the "heterobasidiomycetes" or "jelly fungi", since many have gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) that produce spores on ...

'' and ''

Tremellales The Tremellales are an order of fungi in the class Tremellomycetes. The order contains both teleomorphic and anamorphic species, most of the latter being yeasts. All teleomorphic species in the Tremellales are parasites of other fungi, though th ...

'' species in Poland, * '' Checklist of Polish Larger Basidiomycetes'', * ''Red List of endangered macrofungi of Poland'', * ''Macrofungi of North Korea'' He established a mushroom collection in Institute of Botany that grew to over 53000 specimens. Its one of the most important fungi collections in Poland. He was a lecturer and thesis supervisor for MsC and PhD candidates. He studied fungi of

Babia Góra Babia Góra (in Polish), or Babia hora (in Slovak), literally Old Wives' or Witches' Mountain, is a massif situated on the border between Poland and Slovakia in the Western Beskid Mountains. The name is also applied to the culmination of the ...

, Gorce, na Spiš Magura, Ojcowski Park Narodowy, Tatra National Park, Niepołomice Forest and

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

. He collaborated with Czechoslovakian mycologists. Together with a fellow mycologist they prepared an

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of Polish macrofungi, his last work was „''

Laricifomes officinalis ''Laricifomes officinalis'', also known as agarikon, eburiko, or the quinine conk, is a wood-decay fungus that causes brown heart rot on conifers native to Europe, Asia, and North America, as well as Morocco. The fungus is in the order Polyporal ...

'' in the Gorce Mountains (S Poland)”. He was buried on

Rakowicki Cemetery Rakowicki Cemetery (English: ; pl, Cmentarz Rakowicki) is a historic necropolis and a cultural heritage monument located on 26 Rakowicka Street in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It lies within the Administrative District No. 1 ''Stare Miasto'' ...

in Kraków.

Important works

* 2003, ''Morphology of Some Rare and Threatened Polish Basidiomycota'', Acta Mycologica, vol. 38, issue 1–2, Władysław Wojewoda * ''Macrofungi of North Korea collected in 1982–1986 Polish Botanical Studies'', Władysław Wojewoda, Halina Komorowska * ''Invasive macrofungi (Ascomycota and Basidiomycota) in Poland,'' Dariusz Karasiński, Władysław Wojewoda * ''Grzyby wielkoowocnikowe rezerwatu „Bór na Czerwonem” w Kotlinie Orawsko-Nowotarskiej (Karpaty Zachodnie)'', Halina Komorowska, Władysław Wojewoda * ''Atlas of the Geographical Distribution of Fungi in Poland''. 3., Władysław Wojewoda * ''Atlas of the Geographical Distribution of Fungi in Poland''. 2., Władysław Wojewoda

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wojewoda, Wladyslaw 1932 births 2010 deaths Burials at Rakowicki Cemetery 20th-century Polish botanists Polish mycologists Academic staff of Jagiellonian University