Paul Sydow

{{Short description|German mycologist and lichenologist (1851–1925}}

Paul Sydow (1 November 1851 in Kallies – 26 February 1925 in Sophienstädt near Ruhlsdorf)[http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/187070.html UNI Goettingen] Department of Systematic Botany was a German mycologist and lichenologist, father of Hans Sydow (1879–1946).

He worked as a schoolmaster in Berlin. With his son, Hans, he authored works involving descriptions of new species of ascomycetes, rusts and smuts.[https://books.google.com/books?id=IFD4_VFRDdUC&dq=%22Sydow%2C+Paul%22+1851&pg=PA673 Google Books] Dictionary of the Fungi, edited by P.M. Kirk, P.F. Cannon, D.W. Minter, J.A. Stalpers Paul Sydow was a prolific author (or co-author) of new fungal species, having formally described 2331 in his career.{{cite journal |authorlink=Robert Lücking |last=Lücking |first=Robert |title=Three challenges to contemporaneous taxonomy from a licheno-mycological perspective |journal=Megataxa |volume=1 |issue=1 |year=2020 |doi=10.11646/megataxa.1.1.16 |page=78–103 [85]}} He also wrote about algae. He authored 252 works in five languages.[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr00-31893 WorldCat Identities] (publications) Between 1880 and 1916 Sydow edited seven exsiccata series, among them Mycotheca Marchica (1880) with Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf as co-editor.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.{{cite web |title=Mycotheca Marchica: IndExs ExsiccataID=902940034 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=902940034 |access-date=29 September 2024}} With his son Hans Sydow he co-edited the first fascicles of the series Mycotheca Germanica (1903–1906).{{cite web |title=Mycotheca Germanica: IndExs ExsiccataID=2020457727 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2020457727 |access-date=17 September 2024}}