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.
Ladislav Hagara | |
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| Born | 15 January 1944[1] Nováky, Slovakia[1] |
| Occupation | Mycologist, writer |
| Language | Slovak |
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| Notable work | Otto's Encyclopedia of Mushrooms |
Biography edit
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 edit
Fiction edit
- Matej Hrebenda: Vlastný životopis = Matej Hrebenda: Biography (1976)
- Kroky času = The Steps of Time (1979)
- Arzén = Arsenic (1984)
- Slnovrat = Solstice (1987)
- Blíženci = Gemini (1990)
- Uzly = Knots (1990)
Mycological works edit
- Atlas húb = Field Guide of Mushrooms (1987)
- Huby dvojníky = Mushroom Doubles (1992)
- Veľký atlas húb = The Great Field Guide of Mushrooms (2005) by Hagara, Jiří Bajer, and Vladimír Antonín
- Huby – Atlas = Mushrooms – A Field Guide (2006)
- Ottova encyklopédia húb = Otto's Encyclopedia of Mushrooms (2014)
- Huby – Atlas jedlých húb s osvedčenými receptami = Mushrooms – A Field Guide of Edible Mushrooms with Proven Recipes (2018) by Hagara, Oldřich Jindřich, and Aleš Vít
Awards edit
- 1984: Slovak Literary Fund Award for the novel Arzén = Arsenic[16][better source needed]
- 1985: Golden Medal of the Slovak Women's Federation for the novel Arzén = Arsenic[16][better source needed]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Janitor, Anton (December 2019). "PhDr. Ladislav Hagara, PhD. sedemdesiatpäťročný" [75 years of Dr. Ladislav Hagara] (PDF). Spravodajca Slovenskej mykologickej spoločnosti = Newsletter of the Slovak Mycological Society (in Slovak). 2019 (51). Slovak Mycological Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences: 19–27. ISSN 1335-7689. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Významný mykológ Ladislav Hagara mapoval výskyt húb na hornej Nitre". SME (in Slovak). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Huby ako ich nepoznáme". Slovak Academy of Sciences (in Slovak). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ a b "Ladislav Hagara: Životopis autora = Ladislav Hagara: Biography of the author". Slovenské literárne centrum (in Slovak). Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ a b c www.books.sk. "Ladislav Hagara: životopis = Ladislav Hagar: Curriculum vitae". Databáze knih (in Slovak). Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Zbieranie húb". Rádio Regina of Slovenský rozhlas (Slovak Radio) (Interview) (in Slovak). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "MST Library". Mycological Society of Toronto. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Clitocybe gibba var. adstringens Hagara". Index Fungorum. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Hagara, Ladislav (1944–)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Ladislav Hagara: Huby nielen ako hobby". Veda na dosah CVTISR (Centrum vedecko-technických informácií Slovenskej republiky) (Interview) (in Slovak). 23 June 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Mykológ Ladislav Hagara rozšíril najväčšiu encyklopédiu húb na svete". SME (in Slovak). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Vlaňajším najvzácnejším nálezom mykológov je huba ostňovec konzolovitý". News Agency of the Slovak Republic (in Slovak). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Vedecká kaviareň: huby v prírode a v našom živote". Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Slovak Republic (in Slovak). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Veda v centre: Huby v prírode a v našom živote". Európska noc výskumníkov na Slovensku (in Slovak). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Výpis z registra – aktuálny". Register mimovládnych neziskových organizácií (in Slovak). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ a b "Ladislav Hagara – ocenenia". Slovenské literárne centrum (in Slovak). Retrieved 28 December 2023.