> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 780](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190251) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8373-1) LSID 8373-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15740229) QID Q15740229 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rick, Johann \[Johannes\] (1869-1946), Austrian mycologist and clergyman (S. J.); high school teacher at the Stella Matutina, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg 1894-1898; from 1899-1902 at Valkenburg, Netherlands, for theological studies; in 1903 at Barro in Portugal studying Portugese; from 1903-1915 teacher at the Jesuit College at S. Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; from 1915 doing social work; from 1929 professor of theology in the Seminary of S. Leopoldo; from 1942-1946 at S. Salvador, Rio Grande do Sul. **Abbreviated name**: *Rick* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rick*\] #### Herbarium and types Brazilian fungi in [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection IAC|IAC]], [[Collection IACM|IACM]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection PACA|PACA]] (important set), [[Collection R|R]], [[Collection RB|RB]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection SFPA|SFPA]], [[Collection SI|SI]]. – Many of these fungi were distributed in the series *Fungi austro-americani*, fasc. 1-15, nos. 1-300, 1904-1911, distributed from Feldkirch by Jos. Rompel; fasc. 16-18 were by Rick and F. Theissen, q.v. For full details, published schedae (in Ann. mycol. 2-9, 1904-1911) see J. Stevenson (1971). The fascicles and their contents were also duly listed by ÖbZ and Bot. Centralbl. #### Bibliography and biography Bossert p. 331; CSP 18: 191; DTS 6(4): 67, 1: xxiii, 246, 3: 1, 6(4): 67; Hawksworth p. 185; IH 1 (ed. 7): 341, 2: (in press); Kelly p. 191, 256; Kew 4: 464; LS 22254-22270, 38367; Stevenson p. 1255; Urban-Berl. p. 281. #### Biofile - Burkart, A., Darwiniana 2: 141. 1928 (important set of Brazilian fungi at SI). - Fidalgo, P., Rickia 1: 3-11. 1962 (biogr. sketch, portr., bibl.). - Murr, J., Neue Übers. Farn-Bl.-Pfl., Vorarlberg 1/2: xx. 1923. - Rambo, B., Iheringia, Bot. 2: 1-12. 1958 (intr. to Basidiomyc. Rio Grande do Sul, biogr., bibl. portr., b. 19 Jan 1869, d. 6 Mai 1946). - Reitz, R., Anais bot. Herb., Itajai. Sta. Catarina 1: 70-84. 1949 (n.v.). - Rick, J., Iheringia, Bot. 2: 13-14. 1958 (posthumous publ. of his Basidiomyc. in Rio Grande do Sul; portr.). - Stevenson, J., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 36: 338-344. 1971 (on his *Fungi austro-americani*). - Torrend, C., *in* Lloyd, C.G., Mycol. notes 53: \[749\]-751. 1919 (portr.). #### Eponymy (genera): *Rickella* Locquin (1952); *Rickia* Cavara (1899); *Rickiella* H. Sydow ex Rick (1904); (journal): *Rickia*, serie criptogamica dos "Arquivos de Botanica do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil. Vol. 1-x, 1962-1963-x. #### Note Rick's major study *Basidiomycetes eubasidii in Rio Grande do Sul*-Brasilia, was published by B. Rambo, in Iheringia, Bot. 2-9, 1958-1961 (p. 1-480), with a biographical note on p. 8-12. ### Publications ##### n.9190. Monographia Sphaerialium astromaticorum Riograndensium **Title** *Monographia Sphaerialium astromaticorum Riograndensium* \[Broteria, vol. 2, 1933\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1933, with double pagination in Broteria 2(3): \[133\]-145 or \[1\]-13. 1 Aug 1933 and 2(4): \[169\]-201 or \[14\]-46. 1 Nov 1933. ##### n.9191. Monographia das Xylariaceas riograndenses **Title** *Monographia das Xylariaceas riograndenses*... Archivos do Museu nacional vol. xxxvi. Rio de Janeiro \[1935\]. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1913, cover, err. slip, p. \[i\], \[41\]-71, *6 pl. Copy*: FH. – Issued as Arch. Mus. nac. 36, 1935 (journal issue n.v.).