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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
[Vol. Ill, No. 1, 
SKETCH OF DR. GEORG WINTER. 
BY W. A. KELLERMAN. 
Having enjoyed a short but pleasant personal acquaintance with Dr. 
Winter and worked under his direction in his own laboratory, it is with 
especial pleasure that I present to the readers of the Journal of 
Mycology^ a brief outline of his life and mycological work. His quiet 
enthusiasm, his thoroughness and conscientiousness in all h s work, his 
uniform kindness to all associated with him, conspire to make him a 
most valuable and respected teacher. 
He was born Oct. 1st, 1848, at Leipzig, Germany. He attended the 
Gymnasium in his native city, then went to Munich, where lie studied 
one semester under Nsegeli and Radlkofer. On returning to Leipzig, he 
studied in the botanical laboratory of Schenk and in the Zoological 
Institute of Leuckart. For a half year he was assistant provisionally 
to Prof. Kraus in the Botanical Institute at Halle. In October, 1873, he 
received his doctorate in philosophy at Leipzig, having for his thesis 
“Die Deutschen Sordarien.” 
Dr. Winter continued his mycological studies at Leipzig till 1876, 
when he removed to Zurich in Switzerland and became “Docent fuer 
Botanik” in the Polyteclinicum and in 1878 the same also in the University. 
His lectures here included Cryptogams, Plant Diseases and Special 
Botany. Rabenhorst, the editor of Fungi Europaei, Algen Europsei, &c., 
died in 1881, and Dr. Winter undertook the continuation of his Exsiccata. 
Through the help of numerous American friends, he was enabled to 
widen the scope of this invaluable collection and make it Fungi Europsei 
et Extra-Europcei. The editorship of Hedivigici Rabenhorst gave over to 
Dr. Winter at the end of the year 1878 and the latter still continues to 
edit the same. 
Domestic affairs made it necessary for Dr. Winter to return to Leipzig 
in 1883. From this time he has devoted himself exclusively to mycological 
studies, more particularly to his important and critical work, “Pilz-liora 
von Deutschland” (2d edition of Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-flora, Pilze). 
Aside from this, his special attention is given to exotic fungi; he will 
also soon complete Monographs of the genera Meliola and Asterina. 
Being in correspondence with nearly all living mycologists, he has been 
able to make his herbarium of fungi extremely large, perhaps the third 
in rank of the entire world. It is especially rich in type specimens both 
of older and of living authors. It contains complete seis of the most 
valuable exsiccata, as of Fuckl, Rabenhorst, Klotzsch, Thuemen, Rave- 
nel, Ellis, Plowright, Rehm, Kunze, Ac. Dr. Winter’s publications, so 
far as they concern fungi, are to date as follows : 
