Aryeh Leo Olitzki

Aryeh Leo Olitzki
אריה ליאו אוליצקי
Born 4 June 1898
Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany
Died 1983 (aged 84 or 85)
Israel
Citizenship Israeli
Notable awards Israel Prize (1967)

Aryeh Leo Olitzki (Hebrew: אריה ליאו אוליצקי; born 4 June 1898, died 1983) was an Israeli bacteriologist.

Biography

Olitzki was born in 1898 in Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany (now Olsztyn, Poland). He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, and was appointed as assistant in the Institute of Hygiene of the University of Breslau, from where he obtained his doctorate.

In 1924, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine.

Olitzki headed the bacteriology laboratories at the Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem and in Safed.[1] In 1928, he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and became a professor in 1949, and dean of the Medical School from 1961 to 1965.

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