{{short description|Austrian lichenologist and mycologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Josef Hafellner | image = | caption = | alt = | birth_date = 1951 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | fields = Lichenology, mycology | workplaces = [[Karl-Franzens-Universität]] | alma_mater = | author_abbrev_bot = Hafellner <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ipni.org/a/19825-1 |title=Hafellner, Joseph (Josef) (1951–) |publisher=[[International Plant Names Index]] |access-date=17 August 2020}}</ref> }}
'''Josef Hafellner''' (1951– ) is an Austrian [[mycologist]] and [[lichenologist]]. He was awarded the [[Acharius Medal]] in 2016 for his lifetime contributions to lichenology.<ref name="IAL"/> Before his retirement, he was a professor at the [[Karl-Franzens-Universität]] in [[Graz]]. Hafellner started developing an interest in [[lichen]]s while he was a student at this institution, studying under [[Josef Poelt]]. He earned a [[master's degree]] in 1975 and a [[PhD]] in 1978, defending a [[doctoral thesis]] about the genus ''[[Karschia]]''. In 2003, Hafellner received his [[habilitation]]. By this time, he had studied with French lichenologist [[André Bellemère]] (1927–2014) at [[Saint-Cloud]], where he learned techniques of [[transmission electron microscopy]] and how their application in studying [[ascus|asci]] could be used in lichen [[systematics]].{{sfn|Kärnefelt|2009|page=303}} His 1984 work ''Studien in Richtung einer natürlicheren Gliederung der Sammelfamilien Lecanoraceae und Lecideaceae'' has been described as "probably the single most influential publication in [[lichen systematics]] in the latter half of the 20th century".<ref name="Tehler & Wedin 2008"/>
His research interests include the [[classification (biology)|classification]] and [[taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]] of [[lichen]]s and [[lichenicolous fungi]] and lichen [[floristics]] of the eastern [[European Alps]]. He has made about 100,000 [[scientific collection]]s of specimens, including about 8000 lichenicolous fungi. Hafellner has introduced more than 600 scientific names to science, and as of 2016, authored or co-authored 289 [[scientific publication]]s.<ref name="Grube et al. 2016"/> In 2007 he started to edit and distribute the [[exsiccata]] ''Lichenicolous Biota''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lichenicolous Biota: IndExs ExsiccataID=2147199717 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 |access-date=4 August 2024}}</ref>
==Eponymy== Hafellner has been honoured by having several [[taxon|taxa]] named after him, including five genera:<ref name="Hertel et al. 2017"/> *''[[Fellhanera]]'' {{small|Vězda (1986)}} *''[[Fellhaneropsis]]'' {{small|Sérus. & Coppins (1996)}} *''[[Hafellia]]'' {{small|Kalb, H.Mayrhofer & Scheid. (1986)}} *''[[Hafellnera]]'' {{small|Houmeau & Cl.Roux 1984)}} *''[[Henfellra]]'' {{small|Halıcı, D.Hawksw., Z.Kocakaya & Kocakaya (2016)}}
The following species are also named after Hafellner:<ref name="Hertel et al. 2017"/> ''[[Arthonia pepei]]'' {{small|Etayo & Pérez-Ort. (2016)}}; ''[[Biatora hafellneri]]'' {{small|Rodr.Flakus & Printzen (2016)}}; ''[[Biatoropsis hafellneri]]'' {{small|Millanes, Diederich, M.Westb. & Wedin (2016)}}; ''[[Caloplaca hafellneri]]'' {{small|S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2009)}}; ''[[Capronia hafellneri]]'' {{small|Nograsek (1990)}}; ''[[Capronia josefhafellneri]]'' {{small|Zhurb. & Etayo (2016)}}; ''[[Dactylospora hafellneriana]]'' {{small|Sérus. (1984)}}; ''[[Enterographa fellhaneroides]]'' {{small|Yeshitela, Eb.Fisch., Killmann & Sérus. (2009)}}; ''[[Hypotrachyna hafellneri]]'' {{small|Elix, T.H.Nash & Sipman (2009)}}; ''[[Malcolmiella fellhaneroides]]'' {{small|Lücking (2008)}}; ''[[Megalaria hafellneriana]]'' {{small|Kantvilas (2016)}}; ''[[Opegrapha hafellneri]]'' {{small|E.Zimm., Etayo & F.Berger (2016)}}; ''[[Phaeosporobolus fellhanerae]]'' {{small|R.C.Harris & Lendemer (2009)}}; ''[[Schismatomma hafellneri]]'' {{small|Egea & Torrente (1989)}}; ''[[Stigmidium hafellneri]]'' {{small|Zhurb. (2009)}}; ''[[Triblidium hafellneri]]'' {{small|Magnes (1997)}}; ''[[Trichoconis hafellneri]]'' {{small|U.Braun, Khodos., Darmostuk & Diederich (2016)}}; ''[[Xanthoparmelia hafellneri]]'' {{small|Elix (1999)}}; ''[[Xanthoria hafellneri]]'' {{small|S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2003)}}.
==Selected works== A complete listing of Hafellner's 289 scientific publications up to 2016 is given in Grube and colleagues' commemorative article.<ref name="Grube et al. 2016"/> Hafellner's major works include the following: *{{cite book |last1=Hafellner |first1=J |year=1979 |title=''Karschia''. Revision einer Sammelgattung an der Grenze von lichenisierten und nicht-lichenisierten Ascomyceten |trans-title=Revision of a collective genus on the border of lichenized and non-lichenized Ascomycetes |series=Beiheft zur Nova Hedwigia |volume=62 |pages=1–248 |language=de}} *{{cite journal |last1=Poelt |first1=J. |last2=Hafellner |first2=J. |year=1975 |title=Schlauchpforten bei der Flechtengattung Thelocarpon |journal=Phyton |volume=17 |pages=67–77 |lang=de}} *{{cite journal |last1=Hafellner |first1=J. |year=1981 |title=Monographie der Flechtengattung ''Letrouitia'' (Lecanorales, Teloschistineae) |trans-title=Monograph of the lichen genus ''Letrouitia'' (Lecanorales, Teloschistineae) |journal=Nova Hedwigia |volume=35 |pages=645–729 |language=de}} *{{cite book |last1=Hafellner |first1=J. |year=1984 |chapter=Studien in Richtung einer natürlicheren Gliederung der Sammelfamilien Lecanoraceae und Lecideaceae |trans-title=Studies in the direction of a more natural classification of the collective families Lecanoraceae and Lecideaceae |editor-first1=H. |editor-last1=Hertel |editor-first2=F. |editor-last2=Oberwinkler |title=Beitrage zur Lichenologie. Festschrift J. Poelt. |series=Beiheft zur Nova Hedwigia |volume=79 |publisher=J. Cramer |location=Vaduz |pages=241–371 |language=de}} {{see also|:Category:Taxa named by Josef Hafellner}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Grube et al. 2016">{{cite journal |first1=Martin |last1=Grube |first2=Walter |last2=Obermayer |first3=Helmut |last3=Mayrhofer |first4=Toby |last4=[[Toby Spribille|Spribille]] |title=Josef Hafellner – a life amongst lichens and their parasites |journal=Herzogia |year=2016 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=213–234 |doi=10.13158/heia.29.2.2016.213 |s2cid=90032312}}</ref>
<ref name="IAL">{{cite web |title=Acharius Medallists |publisher=[[International Association for Lichenology]] |url=http://www.lichenology.org/index.html?/Awards/AchariusMedallists.html |access-date=17 August 2020 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624065615/http://www.lichenology.org/index.html?%2FAwards%2FAchariusMedallists.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name="Hertel et al. 2017">{{cite journal |first1=Hannes |last1=Hertel |first2=Georg |last2=Gärtner |first3=László |last3=Lőkös |title=Forscher an Österreichs Flechtenflora |trans-title=Investigators of Austria's lichen flora |journal=Stapfia |year=2017 |volume=104 |issue=2 |pages=1–211 |language=German |url=https://www.zobodat.at/biografien/Flechtenforschung_Austria_STAPFIA_0104_2_0001-0211.pdf}}</ref>
<ref name="Tehler & Wedin 2008">{{cite book |last1=Tehler |first1=Mats |last2=Wedin |first2=Mats |year=2008 |chapter=Systematics of lichen fungi |editor-link1=Thomas Hawkes Nash III |editor-last1=Nash III |editor-first1=Thomas H. |title=Lichen Biology |edition=2nd |page=3 |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511790478.018 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292060652 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-69216-8}}</ref>
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===Cited literature=== *{{cite book |last1=Kärnefelt |first1=Ingvar |chapter=Fifty influential lichenologists |pages=283–368 |title=Diversity of Lichenology – Anniversary Volume |editor-last1=Thell |editor-first1=Arne |editor-last2=Seaward |editor-first2=Mark R. D. |editor-last3=Feuerer |editor-first3=Tassilo |year=2009 |series=Bibliotheca Lichenologica |publisher=J. Kramer |volume=100 |location=Stuttgart |isbn=978-3-443-58079-7}} {{Recipients of the Acharius Medal}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hafellner, Josef}} [[Category:1951 births]] [[Category:Austrian lichenologists]] [[Category:Austrian mycologists]] [[Category:Acharius Medal recipients]] [[Category:Austrian taxonomists]] [[Category:University of Graz alumni]] [[Category:Academic staff of the University of Graz]] [[Category:20th-century Austrian botanists]] [[Category:21st-century Austrian scientists]] [[Category:Living people]]