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HISTORY OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 



gymnasium, but fitted himself for the practice of medi- 

 cine, taking his degree in 1853, the same year in which he 

 published the investigations on smut fungi, which, as we 

 have already seen, marks the opening of this period. 

 He practised medicine for two years in his native city, 

 but abandoned it for research in botany. He began as in- 



Anton de Baky. 

 Founder of modem mycology. His studies on the parasitism 

 of fungi gave rise to the school of pathogenetists. (From a photograph, 

 courtesy of Dr. Erwin F. Smith.) 



structor in the University of Tubingen, becoming two 

 years later professor at Freiburg until 1867. He then 

 went to Halle, and finally in 1872 to Strassburg, where he 

 remained until his death in 1888. No less than sixty- 

 eight men afterward noted for work in science studied 

 under him in his laboratories in Strassburg. 



