K. B. (Karel Bernard) Boedijn

Born in Amsterdam on June 29, 1893, Karel Bernard Boedijn trained in botany at the University of Amsterdam and earned his doctorate there in 1925. He went on to build a long career studying fungi and plants, becoming especially known for work on tropical fungi.

Much of his professional life was spent in the Dutch East Indies. Sources describe him as a botanist at the A.V.R.O.S. experiment station in Sumatra, then as a mycologist at the Buitenzorg Herbarium, while also serving as a professor of botany in Batavia and later in Bogor. His research focused on the rich fungal life of Southeast Asia, and he published extensively enough that later specialists compiled bibliographies of his work.

Boedijn returned to the Netherlands in 1958 after roughly three decades in Southeast Asia. He died in The Hague in 1964. Remembered as an important Dutch mycologist, he helped lay the groundwork for later study of tropical fungi through both scholarship and teaching.