Haide-Ene Rebassoo (25 January 1935,

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

– 27 December 2018) was an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

who specialized in the flora of Hiiumaa island.

Life and work

She graduated from

Tartu State University The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a Public university, public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.Hiiumaa Hiiumaa ( , ) is the second largest island in Estonia and is part of the West Estonian archipelago, in the Baltic Sea. It has an area of 989 km2 and is 22 km from the Estonian mainland. Its largest town is Kärdla. It is located within ...

(the second largest island of Estonia) and its genesis. In Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia), Rebassoo defended her doctoral thesis in 1988, which was based on the paper "Biocenoses of the islands of the eastern part of the Baltic Sea, their composition, classification and protection" published in 1987 in Estonian and Russian. She was affiliated with the

Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany The Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany (Estonian: ''Zooloogia ja Botaanika Instituut'') (ZBI) was a zoological and botanical research institute based in Tartu, Estonia. It was founded in 1947. Since 1997, it belonged to the Estonian Univer ...

in Tartu from 1960 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1993. In 1975 she notably published her scientific findings on sea shore plants of the small

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Notable publications

*1967: "Hiiumaa floora ja selle genees" *1972: "Laidude raamat" *1973: "Hiiumaa" *1974: "Eesti taimeriigis" *1975: "Botaanilisi kilde 17 Hiiumaa suvest" *1975: "Sea-shore plant communities of the Estonian islands" *1979: "Eesti taimharuldusi" *1981: "Kaitskem kauneid taimi

References

External links

Publications at the Open Library
1935 births Living people 20th-century Estonian botanists Estonian women botanists Scientists from Tallinn University of Tartu alumni 20th-century Estonian women scientists {{Estonia-botanist-stub