(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

Born: 1844, Berlin, Germany. Died: 1914, Berlin.

career:

Well-known mycologist, since 1880 professor at Berlin; he travelled in Java, staying for a few weeks at Buitenzorg in February 1909.¹

Lycopodium magnusianum Hert. was named after him.

collections:

His whole herbarium in Herb. Hamburg [HBG].

literature:

(1) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 33; and l.c. p. 100, 101.

biographical data:

Ber. Naturw. Mediz. Ver. Innsbr. 36, 1917, p. iii-vii (non vidi); Ber. D.B.G. 32, 1914, p. (32)-(63), incl. bibliogr. + portr.; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.

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