Max Britzelmayr (7 January 1839 – 6 December 1909) was a German

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 ...

and lichenologist who was a native of Augsburg. He spent his career as a schoolteacher and ''Kreisschulinspektor'' (school district administrator) in Augsburg. He is known for his research of a class of fungi known as Hymenomycetes. He also conducted investigations of lichens native to southern Bavaria, including the

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(biographical information)

List of Publications

* ''Dermini und Melanospori aus Südbayern'', (Dermini and Melanspora of southern Bavaria); (1883) * ''Hymenomyceten aus Südbayern'', ( Hymenomycetes of southern Bavaria); (1894) * ''Zur Hymenomyceten-Kunde'', (Study of Hymenomycetes); (1895) * ''Materialien zur Beschreibung der Hymenomyceten'', (Materials for the description of Hymenomycetes); (1897). Botanisches Zentralblatt 71: 49–59, 87–96. * ''Die Lichenen der Allgäuer Alpen''. (Lichens of the

); (1900), Bericht der Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schwaben und Neuburg (A. V.) in Augsburg 34: 73–139.

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Pilzverein Augsburg Königsbrunn
(translated biography of Max Britzelmayr)

German mycologists German lichenologists Scientists from Augsburg 1839 births 1909 deaths {{Germany-botanist-stub

List of Publications

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