Hans Conrad Schellenberg (28 April 1872 – 27 October 1923) was a Swiss

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 ...

and

agronomist An agriculturist, agriculturalist, agrologist, or agronomist (abbreviated as agr.) is a professional in the science, practice, and management of agriculture and agribusiness. It is a regulated profession in Canada, India, the Philippines, the Uni ...

. Schellenberg was born in Hottingen. He studied at the

Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum Zürich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

(1890–93) and the

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(1893–95), where he was a student of botanist Simon Schwendener. Afterwards he worked as an assistant at the seed control station in Zürich (1895–97) and as a teacher at the Agricultural School-Strickhof in

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(1897–1902). He obtained his

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for botany at the Polytechnic in Zürich, where from 1908 to 1923, he served as a professor of agronomy.Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Pflanzenbaus
by Wolfgang Böhm His primary focus was in the areas of

plant pathology Plant pathology or phytopathology is the scientific study of plant diseases caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Plant pathology involves the study of pathogen identification, disease ...

and agricultural botany, being credited with furthering the development of grain farming in Switzerland. He was the author of significant works on fungal plant diseases. He died in

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, aged 51.

Selected works

* ''Beiträge zur Kenntnis der verholzten Zellmembran'', 1895 (dissertation thesis). * ''Graubündens Getreidevarietäten : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf ihre horizontale Verbreitung'', 1900 – Graubünden cereal varieties. * ''Der Blasenrost der Arve'', 1904 – Blister rust and the

Swiss pine ''Pinus cembra'', also known as Swiss pine, Swiss stone pine, Arolla pine, Austrian stone pine, or just stone pine, is a species of pine tree in the subgenus ''Strobus''. Description The Swiss pine is a member of the white pine group, ''Pinu ...

. * ''Untersuchungen über den Einfluss der Salze auf die Wachstumsrichtung der Wurzeln, zunächst. an der Erbsenwurzel'', 1906 – Studies on the influence of salts on growth direction of roots, etc. * ''Die Brandpilze der Schweiz'' 1911 –

Smut fungi The smuts are multicellular fungus, fungi characterized by their large numbers of teliospores. The smuts get their name from a Germanic word for 'dirt' because of their dark, thick-walled, and dust-like teliospores. They are mostly Ustilaginomycet ...

of Switzerland.OCLC WorldCat
published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schellenberg, Hans Conrad 1872 births 1923 deaths ETH Zurich alumni Academic staff of ETH Zurich Swiss mycologists 19th-century Swiss botanists Swiss agronomists 20th-century Swiss botanists

Selected works

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