De Bary, Heinrich Anton

De Bary, Heinrich Anton

(hīn`rĭkh än`tōn də bärē`), 1831–88, German botanist. He was professor at the universities of Freiburg in Breisgau (1855–66) and Halle (1867–72) and first rector of the Univ. of Strasbourg (from 1872). An authority on plant anatomy, he wrote several standard works in these fields and discovered sexual reproduction in fungi and the alternation of generations in rust fungi. His research established mycology as a science. In 1879, De Bary coined the word symbiosis.

De Bary, Heinrich Anton

 

Born Jan. 26, 1831, in Frankfurt am Main; died Jan. 19, 1888, in Strasbourg. German botanist. Professor at the universities of Freiburg (from 1855), Halle (from 1867), and Strasbourg (from 1872).

De Bary’s works laid the basis for modern mycology and plant pathology. He elucidated the heterotrophic nature of the nourishment of fungi, determined that parasitic fungi cause diseases in higher plants, and discovered and studied the sexual process in many types of fungi (Phycomycetes, Ascomycetes). He also studied the developmental cycle of Uredinales and proposed the first phylogenetic system of fungi. De Bary was the author of a number of works on the comparative anatomy of higher plants. Among his pupils were the Russian botanists M. S. Voronin, A. S. Famintsyn. and V. I. Beliaev.

WORKS

Vergleichende Anatomie der Vegetationsorgane der Phanerogamen und Farne. Leipzig. 1877.
Vergleichende Morphologie und Biologie der Pilze, Mycetozoen und Bacterien. Leipzig, 1884.
In Russian translation:
Morfologiia i fiziologiia gribov. lishaev i miksomitsetov. St. Petersburg, 1872.

REFERENCES

Kursanov, L. I. “Anton de-Bari (1831–1888) i ego znachenie ν raz-vitii mikologii i fitopathologii.” Uch. zap. Moskovskogo universiteta. 1940, issue 36, pp. 112–35.
Jost, L. “Zum hundertsten Geburtstag Anton de Barys.” Zeiischrift für Botanik. 1930, vol. 24, part 1. pp. 1–74. (Contains a list of works.)

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