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Kurt Lohwag

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Kurt Lohwag (1913–1970) was an Austrian botanist and mycologist. The son of the Austrian mycologist Heinrich Lohwag (1884 - 1945).[1] He was educated at the University of Vienna. For much of his career, he worked at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur, Vienna.[2]

He was honoured in 1970, when botanist Franz Petrak named a genus of fungi, Lohwagiella, which is now a synonym of Niesslia Auersw.[3]

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  1. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  2. ^ Weindlmayr, Josef (1970). "In Memoriam o. Hochschulprofessor Dr. Kurt Lohwag" [In memoriam of University Professor Dr. Kurt Lohwag]. Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde (in German). 43 (8): 125–6. doi:10.1007/BF02040926. S2CID 42987819.
  3. ^ "Lohwagiella Petrak, 1970". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  K.Lohwag.