Maria Eneyda Pacheco Kauffman Fidalgo
Maria Eneyda Pacheco Kauffman Fidalgo | |
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| Born | 21 October 1928 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Died | 1970 (aged 41–42) |
| Occupation | Mycologist |
| Spouse | Oswaldo Fidalgo |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1964 and 1966) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mycology |
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Maria Eneyda Pacheco Kauffman Fidalgo (21 October 1928 – 1970) was a Brazilian mycologist. A Guggenheim Fellow, she worked at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden and Instituto de Botânica.
Biography
She was born on 21 October 1928 in Rio de Janeiro.[1] She studied at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she obtained her diploma in pharmacology and chemistry degree in 1950 and later her master of science degree.[1] In 1952, she married Oswaldo Fidalgo, with whom she had three daughters.[2]
After working at the Laboratórios Silva Araújo-Roussel as a technical assistant (1951–1952), she became a naturalist at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden's applied botany section,[1] with her application essay being on Lonchocarpus discolor.[2]
Despite her work as a naturalist, she decided to study mycology due to low resources for studying botany.[2] She and her husband accepted Alcides Ribeiro Teixeira's invitation to work at the Instituto de Botânica in São Paulo,[2] and in 1959 she began working there in the cryptogamic section.[1] In 1961, she served as acting head biologist for the institute's morphology and anatomy section.[1] She and her husband described the genus Pseudofistulina and its species Fistulina brasiliensis in a 1963 article of Mycologia.[3][4]
In 1964,[5] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for comparative studies of Asiatic and American tropical fungi".[1] She was awarded a second fellowship in 1966.[5] In 1969, Boris Skvortsov named the flagellate genus Eneidamonas after her.[6] She and her husband published O Dicionário Micológico (1967), for which they won the 1968 Academia Brasileira de Letras' João Ribeiro Award.[2]
In 1970, she was killed in an automobile accident.[2] The herbarium at Instituto de Botânica is called the Maria Eneyda Pacheco Kauffman Fidalgo Herbarium.[7] The Brazilian Society of Mycology began awarding the Maria Eneyda Pacheco Kauffman Fidalgo Award in 2019.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1963. p. 209. Archived from the original on 25 January 2025. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f Trierveiler-Pereira, Larissa; Prado-Elias, Amanda (2022). "OSWALDO FIDALGO, PIONEIRO DA ETNOMICOLOGIA NO BRASIL". Ethnoscientia. 7 (1). doi:10.18542/ethnoscientia.v7i1.12064. Archived from the original on 13 June 2025.
- ^ "Pseudofistulina". Index Fungorum. Archived from the original on 20 November 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
- ^ "Pseudofistulina brasiliensis". Index Fungorum. Archived from the original on 2 June 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
- ^ a b "Maria E. P. K. Fidalgo". Guggenheim Fellowships. Archived from the original on 3 December 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
- ^ "New and little known genera of colourless flagellates of Fam. Astasiaceae, Euglenophyceae recorded in 1954–1968 from N.E. China and Brasil". Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum. 22: 227. 1968.
Dedicavi hanc generis Dom. Eneyda Maria Racheco Kauffmann Fidalgo, biologista Inst. Bot. Sao Paulo, Brasil.
- ^ Souza De Oliveira, Jadson José; Capelari, Marina (2016). "Three New Species of Marasmius from Remnants of the Atlantic Rainforest, São Paulo, Brazil". Cryptogamie, Mycologie. 37 (1): 61–73. doi:10.7872/crym/v37.iss1.2016.61. ISSN 0181-1584.
- ^ "Premiados". Brazilian Society of Mycology. Retrieved 10 July 2025.