Richard Sadebeck

Richard Emil Benjamin Sadebeck (20 May 1839 in Breslau – 11 February 1905 in Meran) was a German pteridologist and mycologist. He was an older brother of mineralogist Alexander Sadebeck (1843–1879).

He studied natural sciences at the University of Breslau as a pupil of Heinrich Göppert. From 1865 to 1876 he worked as a schoolteacher in Berlin, and afterwards relocated to Hamburg, where he taught classes at the Johanneum. From 1883 to 1901 he was director of the Hamburg Botanical Museum.^[1][2]

In 1893 he described the fungal genus Magnusiella (syn. Taphrina).^[3]

Selected works

• De Montium Inter Vistritium et Nissam Fluvios Sitorum Flora, 1864.
• Die Entwicklung des Keimes der Schachtelhalme, 1878 – Development of horsetail shoots.
• Kritische Untersuchungen über die durch Taphrina-Arten hervorgebrachten Baumkrankheiten, 1890 – Critical studies on tree diseases caused by Taphrina species.
• Die parasitischen Exoasceen : eine Monographie, 1893 – Parasitic Exoasceae.
• Filices Camerunianae Dinklageanae, 1896.
• Hydropteridineae, 1897.
• Die wichtigeren Nutzpflanzen und deren Erzeugnisse aus den deutschen Colonien, 1897 – The more important crops and their products from the German colonies.
• Die Kulturgewachse der deutschen Kolonien und ihre Erzeugnisse (1899, chapter 10 by Ernest Friedrich Gilg).^[4]

References

1. Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, Volume 1 by Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers
2. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
3. Magnusiella Index Fungorum
4. Most widely held works by Richard Sadebeck WorldCat Identities
5. IPNI.  Sadeb.