Heinrich Georg Winter

Heinrich Georg Winter (1 October 1848, Leipzig 16 August 1887) was a German mycologist.

Beginning in 1870, he studied natural sciences at the Universities of Leipzig, Munich and Halle, obtaining his habilitation in 1875 from the Polytechnic Confederation in Zurich.[1][2]

He is the taxonomic authority of Sordariaceae, a family of perithecial fungi.[3] In 1880 he described the order Ustilaginales (smut fungi).[4] He also conducted anatomical and morphological research of crustose lichens.[1]

From 1871 to 1879, he was co-editor of the journal "Hedwigia", from 1879 until his death, he served as its editor.[2] With Anton de Bary and Heinrich Rehm, he was co-author of Die Pilze Deutschlands, Oesterreichs und der Schweiz.[5]

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