Paul Dietel

{{Short description|German mycologist (1860–1947)}}

Paul Dietel (15 February 1860, Greiz – 30 October 1947, Zwickau) was a German mycologist.

He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Göttingen, and afterwards worked as a schoolteacher in Greiz, Leipzig, Reichenbach im Vogtland and Glauchau.[https://books.google.com/books?id=KHlBAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Paul+Dietel%22+1860&pg=PA29 Thomas Münzer in Zwickau und die "Zwickauer Propheten": wissenschaftliche ...] by Paul Wappler

He specialized in research of rust fungi (Uredinales) — from 1887 to 1943 he was the author of 150 scientific papers on rusts.[https://books.google.com/books?id=IFD4_VFRDdUC&dq=%22Dietel%2C+Paul%22+1860&pg=PA208 Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi] by Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth His extensive treatment of rust fungi in Engler and Prantl's Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien was recognized as its definitive account for many years.[http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000390330 Dietel, Paul (1860-1947)] JSTOR Global Plants

In 1897 Paul Christoph Hennings named the genus Dietelia (family Pucciniosiraceae) in his honor.[https://books.google.com/books?id=zIfVxKlSFJwC&dq=%22Dietelia%22+%22Dietel%22&pg=PA291 Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum] by Pier Andrea Saccardo