Franz Petrak [SEP] place of death
Franz Petrak
Franz Petrak (9 October 1886, Mährisch-Weißkirchen – 9 October 1973, Vienna) was an Austrian-Czech mycologist.
From 1906 to 1910, he studied botany at the University of Vienna, where he was a student of Richard Wettstein. In 1913 he obtained his doctorate of sciences, and until 1916, worked as a high school teacher in Vienna. During World War I, he was stationed in Galicia and Albania, where he collected specimens in his spare time. From 1918 to 1938,
in Berlin in 1943.
Hans Sydow was founding editor of the journal "", established in 1903, and he remained the journal's editor in chief until his death in 1946.
Honours.
Following Sydow's death, "Annales Mycologici" was retitled with the prefix "Sydowia" in his honour. In the following issue, Franz Petrak, who had published papers with Sydow since the early 1920s, succeeded Sydow as editor in chief and published an obituary in the subsequent volume.
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