Hans Conrad Schellenberg

Hans Conrad Schellenberg, c. 1921

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

Schellenberg was born in Hottingen. He studied at the Eidgenössische 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.

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.
• 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 of Switzerland.^[4]

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