Swart, Haring Johannes

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English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-05-13 human Helen Cohn updated 2026-05-19 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007702b.htm person Swart Haring Johannes AACR2 22 August 1922 26 January 1993 Place of Birth Nijmegan, Netherlands Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Mycologist 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. 1943 1943 Education - Graduated with biology degree, University of Utrecht, Netherlands 1943 1945 Life event - Forced labour in Germany and Austria 1945 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 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 1958 Education - DSc, University of Utrecht 1966 1988 Career position - Senior Lecturer in mycology, School of Botany, University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Herbarium, School of Botany, The University of Melbourne (1926 - )

Swart's fungal specimens are in the Herbarium

School of Botany, The University of Melbourne (1880s - )

Senior Lecturer in mycology 1966 - 1988

'Swart, Haring Johannes', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Swart, Haring Johannes Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Australian leaf inhabiting fungi. XXVIII: Hendersonia on Eucalyptus [Phaeoseptoria and Sonderhenia] Swart, H. J. and Walker, J. Australian leaf inhabiting fungi. XXVIII: Hendersonia on Eucalyptus [Phaeoseptoria and Sonderhenia] 1988 Transactions of the British Mycological Society 90 663-41 Journal Article: Australian leaf-inhabiting fungi. IV: two coelomycetes [Seimatosporium arbuti and Monochaetia lutea sp. nov.] on Acacia pycnantha Swart, H. I. and Griffiths, D. A. Australian leaf-inhabiting fungi. IV: two coelomycetes [Seimatosporium arbuti and Monochaetia lutea sp. nov.] on Acacia pycnantha 1074 Transactions of the British Mycological Society 62 151-61 Journal Article: Australian leaf-inhabiting fungi. XVI: Vermisporium, a new genus of coelomycetes on Eucalyptus leaves Swart, H. J. and Williamson, M. A. Australian leaf-inhabiting fungi. XVI: Vermisporium, a new genus of coelomycetes on Eucalyptus leaves 1983 Transactions of the British Mycological Society 81 491-502 Journal Article: Australian leaf inhabiting fungi. XXIII: Colletogloeum species and similar fungi on Acacia Sutton, B. C. and Swart, H. J. Australian leaf inhabiting fungi. XXIII: Colletogloeum species and similar fungi on Acacia 1986 Transactions of the British Mycological Society 87:93-102 87 93-102 Journal Article: Haring Johannes Swart 1922-1993 Parbery, D. G. Haring Johannes Swart 1922-1993 1994 Australasian Plant Pathology 23 2 29-35 Edited Book: History of Microbiology in Australia Fenner, Frank History of Microbiology in Australia Melbourne Australian Society for Microbiology 1990