Ladislav Hagara

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Ladislav Hagara
Born (1944-01-15) 15 January 1944 (age 79) [1]
Nováky, Slovakia [1]
Occupation Mycologist, Writer
LanguageSlovak
Genre
  • Field guides
  • novels
  • short stories
Subject
  • Mushrooms of Slovakia
  • occupational drama
  • social conditions
Notable workOtto's Encyclopedia of Mushrooms

Ladislav Hagara (born January 15, 1944) is a Slovak mycologist [2] [3] , writer and author of mycological publications. He held the position of the Chairman of the Slovak Mycological Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and described a new fungal species variety.

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Biography

Hagara graduated in journalism at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1968. However he was banned from pursuing his profession as a journalist on ideological grounds—based on articles he wrote protesting the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he was registered as a "hostile person" by the ŠtB secret police. Instead he worked as an editor and a director of a publishing house. [4]

In 2003, he successfully defended his dissertation on the topic of The Hyphodontia Genus in Slovakia (Basidiomycota, Corticiaceae). [5]

His mushroom field guides have sold over half a million copies [1] [ better source needed ] across more than 35 editions [6] (in addition to Slovak also in Czech, French, German, Dutch and Hungarian) [7] , and include Otto's Encyclopedia of Mushrooms, a field guide to mushrooms growing in the territory of Slovakia and Czechia, containing 4,200 photographs and descriptions of 3,230 species. [1] The Slovak names of more than 1000 of these species were created by Hagara. [1] As a part of his mycological scientific research, he has collected and processed more than 15,000 herbarium specimen of mushrooms. [5] [ better source needed ] In 1990 he described and published a new variety of Infundibulicybe gibba var. adstringens. [8] The standard author abbreviation Hagara is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [9] He has also published several photo books about mushrooms. [5]

He is a member of the Slovak Writers' Society. In 1998 he became the chairman of the Mushroom Research Society, he is a member (and between 2015 and 2018 the chairman [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] ) of the Slovak Mycological Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, as well as a member of mycological societies in Czechia, Austria and Germany. [4]

Hagara has also written several social-justice-themed short stories, and novels set in Slovak research institutions.

Publications

Fiction

Mycological works

Awards

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References

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  2. ↑ "Významný mykológ Ladislav Hagara mapoval výskyt húb na hornej Nitre". SME (newspaper) (in Slovak). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Huby ako ich nepoznáme". Slovak Academy of Sciences (in Slovak). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Ladislav Hagara: Životopis autora = Ladislav Hagara: Biography of the author". Slovenské literárne centrum  [ sk ] (in Slovak). Retrieved 28 December 2023.
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  7. ↑ "MST Library". Mycological Society of Toronto. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "Clitocybe gibba var. adstringens Hagara". Index Fungorum. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  9. ↑ "Hagara, Ladislav (1944-)". International Plant Names Index . Retrieved 28 December 2023.
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