IM MEMORIAM

Professor
Władysław Wojewoda

1932-2010

Władysław Wojewoda was born on May 20th, 1932, in the small town of Przemyśl 
in SE Poland. After studies in the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the 
Jagiellonian University in Kraków he started working in the Jagiellonian Uni-
versity Botanical Garden (1959) and after two years as a junior lecturer in the 
Department of Plant Systematics and Geography at the Jagiellonian University 
(1961-1968). During that period he was involved in intensive mycological stud-
ies. His doctoral thesis was devoted to “Macromycetes” of the ojców national 
Park. Władysław Wojewoda worked also in the W. Szafer Institute of Botany 
of the Polish Academy of Science in the years 1969-2003. His interests focused 
on the taxonomy, ecology, chorology and conservation of macrofungi, especially 
auricularioid, tremelloid, dacrymecetoid, tulasnelloid and aphyllophoroid fungi. 
He is an author of monographs on Auriculariales and Tremellales in Poland and 
Europe (Wojewoda 1977), Red List of Threatened Macrofungi in Poland (Wojewo-
da, Ławrynowicz 1986, 1992, 2006), Macrofungi of North Korea (Wojewoda et al. 
2004) and monumental Checklist of the Polish Basidiomycetes (Wojewoda 2003). 
not only are many articles and monographs (altogether ca. 300 publications) 
a great achievement of Professor Wojewoda but also a collection of fungi which 
he founded in W. Szafer Institute of Botany. This collection includes ca. 53 000 
specimens of fungi, and is one of the most important collections of fungi in Po-
land. In 2000 the first fascicle of The Atlas of the Geographical Distribution of 
Fungi in Poland edited by Professor Wojewoda was published. He was also a good 
teacher for students, doctoral students and amateurs of mycology. Professor Wo-
jewoda carried out mycological research in Babia Góra, Gorce, Magura, ojców 
and Tatra national Parks. His studies in north Korea and niepołomice Forest 
near Kraków deserve special attention. He also collaborated with mycologists 
from the Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia). Professor W. Wojewoda and 
Professor B. Gumińska wrote a basic key for identification of macromycetes for 
students and teachers.

Professor Wojewoda was a recognized authority for mycologists in Poland and 
Europe and was a kind, good humored man. His last article on Laricifomes officinalis 
was devoted to Professor Gumińska (Wojewoda 2010). Professor died on november 
3, 2010, and was buried in the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków.

Andrzej Chlebicki


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	Polish Botanical Society