German mycologist.
Robert Bauer (1950 – 8 September 2014) was a German mycologist, specialising in rust (Uredinales) and smut (Ustilaginomycetes) fungi. Bauer studied Biology at the University of Tübingen during the 1970s, and a particular interest in plants and fungi led to completing his PhD there in 1983, with a doctoral dissertation entitled Experimentell-ontogenetische und karyologische Untersuchungen an Uredinales (Experimental-ontogenetic and karyological studies on Uredinales). He went on to become chair of "Systematic Botany and Mycology" (now "Evolutionary Ecology of Plants") in the "Institute of Evol