Paul Sydow
Paul Sydow.
He worked as a schoolmaster in Berlin. With his son, Hans, he authored works involving descriptions of new species of ascomycetes, rusts and smuts. Paul Sydow was a prolific author of new fungal species, having formally described 2331 in his career. He also wrote about algae. He authored 252 works in five languages. Between 1880 and 1916 Sydow edited seven exsiccata series, among them Mycotheca Marchica with Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf as co-editor. With his son Hans Sydow he co-edited the first fascicles of the series Mycotheca Germanica.
Works
- Paul Sydow: Die Flechten Deutschlands : Anleitung zur Kenntnis und Bestimmung der deutschen Flechten, 1887.
- Paul and Hans Sydow: Monographia Uredinearum : seu specierum omnium ad hunc usque diem cognitarum descriptio et adumbratio systematica, 1904–1924.
- Gustav Lindau and Paul Sydow: Thesaurus literaturae mycologicae et lichenologicae..