Paul Dietel

Paul Dietel (15 February 1860, Greiz – 30 October 1947, Zwickau) was a German mycologist.

He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Göttingen, and afterwards worked as a schoolteacher in Greiz, Leipzig, Reichenbach im Vogtland and Glauchau.^[1]

He specialized in research of rust fungi (Uredinales) — from 1887 to 1943 he was the author of 150 scientific papers on rusts.^[2] His extensive treatment of rust fungi in Engler and Prantl's Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien was recognized as its definitive account for many years.^[3]

In 1897 Paul Christoph Hennings named the genus Dietelia (family Pucciniosiraceae) in his honor.^[4]

Selected writings

• Beiträge zur Morphologie und Biologie der Uredineen, 1887 – On the morphology and biology of Uredinales.
• "New Californian Uredineae" (published in English, 1893).
• "Descriptions of new species of Uredineae and Ustilagineae, with remarks on some other species" (published in English, 1893).
• "New North American Uredineae" (published in English, 1895).^[5]