Person

Swart, Haring Johannes (1922 - 1993)

Born
22 August 1922
Nijmegan, Netherlands
Died
26 January 1993
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Mycologist

Summary

Haring Swart was a mycologist widely respected for his rigorous and detailed research. His interests initially lay with soil fungi, later shifting to undescribed species, especially Ascomycetes, and Fungi imperfecti. He was also an accomplished artist: many of his drawings of fungi were included in his published papers. For 14 years, Swart was Lecturer in the Department of Botany at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, where he taught plant anatomy and mycology. While there he built up a culture collection containing over 400 species. On moving to Melbourne in 1966 he left behind the large collection of drawings he had used a teaching aids. Swart held the position of Senior Lecturer in mycology in the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne for over 20 years. His research increasingly focused on microfungi. He published (sometimes with co-authors) a series of 30 papers on leaf-inhabiting fungi between 1971 and 1988. Specimens of many of the species he described were lodged in the School's Herbarium. Frequently calls were made on his time to identify fungi of importance in agriculture, forestry, industry and medicine.

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Chronology

1943
Education - Graduated with biology degree, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
1943 - 1945
Life event - Forced labour in Germany and Austria
1945
Career position - Demonstrator, Department of Botany, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
1946 - 1952
Career position - Assistant, Department of General Botany, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
1951
Education - Doctoraal Examen (MSc equivalent), University, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
May 1952 - 1966
Career position - Lecturer, Department of Botany, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1958
Education - DSc, University of Utrecht
1966 - 1988
Career position - Senior Lecturer in mycology, School of Botany, University of Melbourne

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Journal Articles

  • Parbery, D. G., 'Haring Johannes Swart 1922-1993', Australasian Plant Pathology, 23 (2) (1994), 29-35. Details
  • Sutton, B. C. and Swart, H. J., 'Australian leaf inhabiting fungi. XXIII: Colletogloeum species and similar fungi on Acacia', Transactions of the British Mycological Society 87:93-102, 87 (1986), 93-102, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0007-1536(74)80016-1. Details
  • Swart, H. I. and Griffiths, D. A., 'Australian leaf-inhabiting fungi. IV: two coelomycetes [Seimatosporium arbuti and Monochaetia lutea sp. nov.] on Acacia pycnantha', Transactions of the British Mycological Society, 62 (1074), 151-61, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0007-1536(74)80016-1. Details
  • Swart, H. J. and Walker, J., 'Australian leaf inhabiting fungi. XXVIII: Hendersonia on Eucalyptus [Phaeoseptoria and Sonderhenia]', Transactions of the British Mycological Society, 90 (1988), 663-41, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0007-1536(88)80069-X. Details
  • Swart, H. J. and Williamson, M. A., 'Australian leaf-inhabiting fungi. XVI: Vermisporium, a new genus of coelomycetes on Eucalyptus leaves', Transactions of the British Mycological Society, 81 (1983), 491-502, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0007-1536(83)80117-X. Details

See also

  • Fenner, Frank ed., History of Microbiology in Australia (Melbourne: Australian Society for Microbiology, 1990), 624 pp. Details

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