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K. B. (Karel Bernard) Boedijn
1893–1964
A Dutch botanist and mycologist, he is remembered for careful, wide-ranging work on tropical fungi, especially in what is now Indonesia. His research helped shape how many fungal groups were described and classified in the twentieth century.
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Vogelalbum No. 1
by K. B. (Karel Bernard) Boedijn
About the author
Born in Amsterdam on June 29, 1893, he studied botany at the University of Amsterdam and earned his doctorate there in 1925. He first worked with the geneticist Hugo de Vries, but later became best known for mycology, the study of fungi.
Much of his career was spent in the Dutch East Indies, where he worked at the Buitenzorg Herbarium and later taught botany at universities in Batavia and Bogor. His publications on tropical fungi were extensive, and later writers described them as a foundation for future work on Indonesian fungi.
He returned to the Netherlands in 1958 and died in 1964. Although not a literary author in the usual sense, his scientific writing left a lasting mark on botany and mycology, and his name remains closely linked with fungal taxonomy and tropical research.