Hans Conrad Schellenberg

Hans Conrad Schellenberg
Schellenberg c. 1921
Born(1872-04-28)28 April 1872
Hottingen, Switzerland
Died27 October 1923(1923-10-27) (aged 51)
Zurich, Switzerland
Alma mater
SpouseAlice Rosa Bär
Scientific career
Fieldsbotany, agronomy
Author abbrev. (botany)Schellenb.

Hans Conrad Schellenberg (28 April 1872 – 27 October 1923) was a Swiss botanist and agronomist.

Schellenberg was born in Hottingen. He studied at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum Zürich (1890–93) and the University of Berlin (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 Oberstrass (1897–1902). He obtained his habilitation for botany at the Polytechnic in Zürich, where from 1908 to 1923, he served as a professor of agronomy.[1][2]

His primary focus was in the areas of plant pathology and agricultural botany, being credited with furthering the development of grain farming in Switzerland.[3] He was the author of significant works on fungal plant diseases.[1] He died in Zürich, aged 51.

  1. ^ a b Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Pflanzenbaus by Wolfgang Böhm
  2. ^ Hans Conrad Schellenberg Archived 2016-08-11 at the Wayback Machine Zürcher Herbarien
  3. ^ Schellenberg, Hans Konrad in Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz