Hermann Friedrich Bonorden

Hermann Friedrich Bonorden (28 August 1801 – 19 May 1884) was a German physician and mycologist. During his career, he served as a Regimentarzt (regimental medical doctor) in Köln.^[1]

In 1866, Stephan Schulzer von Müggenburg named the fungi genus Bonordenia in his honor. The genus Bonordeniella was named after him by Albert Julius Otto Penzig and Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1901.^[1] Bonorden was the author of numerous mycological taxa; the following are some of the genera that he circumscribed:

• Fusicolla (1851).
• Hormomyces (1851).
• Cornicularia (1851), syn. Clavulinopsis.
• Polythecium (1861), syn. Fusicoccum.
• Byssitheca (1864), syn. Rosellinia.^[2]

Written works

He was the author of books in the fields of medicine and mycology, the following are three of his mycological efforts:

• Handbuch der allgemeinen Mykologie, 1851 - Manual of general mycology.
• Zur Kenntniss einiger der wichtigsten Gattungen der Coniomyceten und Cryptomyceten, 1860 - To the knowledge of some of the major genera of Coniomycetes and Cryptomycetes.
• Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Mykologie, 1864 - Treatises from the field of mycology.^[3][4]