Felix von Thümen graduated from the Gymnasium in Dresden and entered the Prussian army at the age of 19, but soon retired due to an injury incurred by a fall from his horse. After a short stint in agriculture he had to abandon the management of his family estates and devoted the rest of his life to botanical and mycological research. Influenced mainly by Ludwig Reichenbach he devoted most of his interest to the study of fungi. In 1876 he became a research assistant at the chemico-physiological research station in Klosterneuburg, a position he occupied for the rest of his life. The position afforded him considerable freedom in choosing his domicile, so that he lived for various periods in Vienna, Berlin and Gorizia. He suffered from a severe heart disease, for which he repeatedly visited the spas of Teplitz-Schönau, where he died at the age of 54. He was a fellow of the Royal Prussian Academy of Science.
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His early fame rested mainly on his morphological acumen, which resulted in him being sought out to provide systematic treatments of fungi made by a large number of botanical collectors in Austria, Bavaria, Portugal, Siberia, Egypt, South Africa, Australia, North America and Argentina. His interest later turned to plant pathology, in particular to fungal diseases of grapevines and fruit trees. Among a multitude of publications the more prominent are Fungi nonnulli austriaci, Fungi of the Grapevine, (1877) Fungi of the Fruitplants (1888) and the exsiccataHerbarium mycologicum oeconomicum.
^Regarding personal names: Freiherr is a former title (translated as Baron). In Germany since 1919, it forms part of family names. The feminine forms are Freifrau and Freiin.
^Penzig AJO, Saccardo PA (1897). "Diagnoses fungorum novorum in insula Java collectorum. Ser. II". Malpighia. 11: 491–530.
E. Wunschmann., „Thümen, Felix“, in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 54 (1908), pp. 702-703
Obituary in Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 1893
External linksedit
von Thümen, F. Die Pilze der Obstgewächse on Open Library.
von Thümen, F. Die Pilze des Weinstockes 1878 at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
de:Thümen (Adelsgeschlecht)
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Detailed bibliography on WorldCat
March 07, 2024
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