Richard Falck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Falck

Prussian-American botanist

Date of Birth: 07-May-1873

Place of Birth: Lędyczek, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1955

Profession: university teacher, botanist, mycologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Richard Falck (7 May 1873–1 January 1955) was a German-American botanist and mycologist, who worked as a professor of mycology at the forest academy in Hannoversch Münden before he fled Nazi Germany and the persecution of Jews to finally settle in the United States of America.
Falck was a specialist on fungi and on the preservation of timber from fungal damage.