Background
Schmiedeknecht, Martin Erich Ludwig was born on January 8, 1927 in Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany. Son of Albert Erich Ludwig and Ida Margarethe Ernestine (Enge) Schmiedeknecht.
Schmiedeknecht, Martin Erich Ludwig was born on January 8, 1927 in Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany. Son of Albert Erich Ludwig and Ida Margarethe Ernestine (Enge) Schmiedeknecht.
Diploma in Biology, University Jena, Germany, 1953. Doctor Natural Science, University Jena, Germany, 1955. Habilitation, University Jena, Germany, 1963.
Scientific assistant University Jena, 1953-1955. Researcher Institute Phytopathology, Aschersleben, Germany, 1955-1966. Chief researcher Institute Cereal Breeding, Hadmersleben, Germany, 1966-1972, Institute Phytopathology, Aschersleben, Germany, 1972-1981.
Custodian Herbarium Haussknecht, University Jena, 1981-1991. Researcher, since 1992. Participant as mykologist and phytopathologist biological expedition through Mongolia and Gobi desert, 1964, Cuba and eastern coastal lowland of Mexico, 1967-1968, highland of Armenia and Caucasia, 1975, lowland of Turan and surrounding mountain chains, 1985, coastal British Columbia, 1994, Palestine and the Nile valley, 1998, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, 2000, Iceland and Greenland, 2001.
Collector, determinator voluminous collections of exsiccated fungi from Mongolia, Cuba, Mexico and Caucasus. Discoverer, descriptor, author numerous new taxa of microscopic fungi from Central Asia and Middle Am. Initiator virulence frequency monitoring system for cereal rusts and mildews in East European countries.
Member Society Mycology and Lichenology Germany.
Son of; married Lisa Schmiedeknecht Neubauer, May 22, 1954. Children: Angela, Uta.