Felix von Thümen

Felix Karl Albert Ernst Joachim Freiherr[1] von Thümen (6 February 1839, Dresden – 13 October 1892 Teplitz-Schönau) was a German botanist and mycologist.

Felix von Thümen graduated from the Gymnasium in Dresden and entered the Prussian army at the age of 19, but soon retired due to an injury incurred by a fall from his horse.

After a short stint in agriculture he had to abandon the management of his family estates and devoted the rest of his life to botanical and mycological research.

His early fame rested mainly on his morphological acumen, which resulted in him being sought out to provide systematic treatments of fungi made by a large number of botanical collectors in Austria, Bavaria, Portugal, Siberia, Egypt, South Africa, Australia, North America and Argentina.

[2][3] Botanists Albert Julius Otto Penzig and Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1898, circumscribed the fungi genus of Thuemenella, which was named in his honour.