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Elias Magnus Fries FRS FRSE FLS (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the "Linnaeus of Mycology". [ 1] In his works he described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and lichen species, many of which remain authoritative today.
May 22, 2015 · Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878) The body of work gathered by Fries cannot be separated from the milieu of his life and times. Elias Fries, born into the household of a rural clergyman in southern Sweden, did not have any family name or wealth to catapult him to greatness in any field of endeavor.
- Ronald H. Petersen, Henning Knudsen
- 2015
ELIAS MAGNUS FRIES. BY WM. R. DUDLEY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY. ELIAS MAGNUS FRIES was born at Femsjo, Sweden, Aug. 15th, 1794, and died at Upsala, Sweden, Feb. 8th, 1878. Although he had but comparatively little to do directly, with the fungi of America, no cata-logue of our higher fungi can be published but does not show his name
In attempting to outline the mycological life and legacy of Elias Magnus Fries (Petersen & Knudsen 20151) scattered sins of omission and of commission were committed. Some of these were brought to our attention by S.R., who has supplied needed data to set the record straight.
A specialist in fungi and lichens, Fries is sometimes referred to as the 'Father of Mycology'; certainly he did much to sytematise current knowledge of fungi and was one of the first to use essentially microscopic characters.
Elias Magnus Fries's fungus exsiccati Scleromyceti Sueciae documents specimens cited in several of Fries's publications that are now considered sanctioning works in the nomenclature and taxonomy of several groups of fungi.
May 22, 2015 · The present paper attempts to trace Fries’s legacy from his lifetime to the recent past. The taxonomic concepts which originated with or were accepted by Elias Magnus Fries were presented during his lifetime in the printed word, illustrative depiction, and in collections of dried specimens.
