Ladislav Hagara
Ladislav Hagara | |
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| Born | 15 January 1944[1] |
| Occupation | Mycologist, writer |
| Language | Slovak |
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| Notable work | Otto'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.
Biography
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]Fiction
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- 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]
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