František Bubák Explained

František Bubák (22 July 1866, in Rovensko pod Troskami – 19 September 1925, in Prague) was a Czech mycologist and phytopathologist.

From 1902 to 1919, he served as a professor at the provincial academy in Tábor, followed by a professorship in botany and plant pathology at the agricultural university in Brno. From 1920 to 1925, he was a professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague (Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry).^[1]

He was the author of numerous papers involving fungi native to Bohemia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Galicia, Hungary, Istria, Montenegro, Moravia, Russia and Tyrol. He also published works on North American fungi.^[2] The mycological genus Bubakia is named in his honor.^[3] Together with Josef Emanuel Kabát he published the exsiccata Fungi imperfecti exsiccati.^[4]

Selected works

• O rezich, které eizopasi na některych Rubiaceich, 1899.
• Einige neue oder kritische Uromyces-Arten, 1903 – On some new or critical Uromyces species.
• Infektionsversuche mit einigen Uredineen. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene Abt. 2 9: 913-[925], 1902 – Infection experiments with some members of Uredineae.
• Mykologische Beiträge, 1904 – Mycological contributions.^[5]
• "Fungi Imperfecti Exsiccati" Fasc. 8 : nos 351-400, with Josef Emanuel Kabát (1849–1925).
• Eine neue Krankheit der Maulbeerbäume. 2. Bericht der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 29: 70-74, 1911 – A new disease affecting mulberry trees.
• Ein neuer Pilz mit sympodialer Konidienbildung. Bericht der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 29: 381-385, 1911 – A new fungus with sympodial conidia.^[2]

Notes and References

1. http://encyklopedie.brna.cz/home-mmb/?acc=profil_osobnosti&load=2784 Encyklopedie dějin města Brna
2. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cgi-bin/bibquery.pl?author=bubak,%20f. Cybertruffle
3. http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000391316 JSTOR Global Plants
4. Web site: Fungi imperfecti exsiccati: IndExs ExsiccataID=864879667 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 19 April 2024.
5. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Frantisek+Bub%C3%A1k%22 Google Search