Johannes Anton Weinmann (1782 - 1858)
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Biography
Sources
Selected publications
Species
Biography
Weinmann grew up around Würzburg, where he studied natural history and left for the university at Dorpat in 1805. In 1813, he somehow attracted the notice of the queen mother of Russia, who brought him back to St. Petersburg with her and settled him in Gatschina (near St. Petersburg) as a gardener. In 1815 he was made Royal Garden Inspector for Pavlovsk (another suburb of St. Petersburg). He joined various Russian scientific societies, and somehow found time to write his book on Russian fungi.
Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
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Selected Publications
Johannes Anton Weinmann (1836) Hymeno- et Gastero-Mycetes hucusque in imperio Rossico observatos (Hymeno- and Gastero-mycetes currently to be seen in imperial Russia)Bear in mind that the basidium had not been discovered yet, so when he says "hymenomycetes", he also means Ascomycetes with an exposed hymenium, like Peziza species. And he likewise includes Ascomycetes in his Gasteromycetes.
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Species
Cortinarius traganus (J. A. Weinmann: Fries) Fries
Lepiota acutesquamosa (J. A. Weinmann) Kummer
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