Israel Reichert

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Israel Reichert (Hebrew: ישראל רייכרט) (5 August 1891 – 22 May 1975) was a Polish-born Israeli agriculturist and biologist who established the field of phytopathology in Israel. He worked on the management of rusts and smuts of field and fruit crops.

Biography[edit]

Israel Reichert was born in Ozorkow, Poland to Eliezer Chaim Layzer and Ruchama Reichert. He immigrated to what was then Ottoman Palestine in 1908. He worked as a labourer and then taught natural history. He studied botany at the University of Berlin under Adolf Engler, writing his thesis on the fungi of Egypt.

Scientific career[edit]

He applied biogeographical principles to fungi and worked on the management of plant pathogenic fungi. He worked in Italy briefly in 1921 and then moved back to Palestine to start a department of plant pathology. In 1942 he moved to the Hebrew University's School of Agriculture at Rehovot. He served as a professor from 1949 to 1959, co-founding the Palestine Journal of Botany in 1938.[1][2]

Awards and recognition[edit]

The standard author abbreviation Reichert is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Katan, Jaacov (2009). "Phytopathology in Israel: Nine decades of research". Phytoparasitica. 37 (4): 333–336. doi:10.1007/s12600-009-0046-3. S2CID 37320647.
  2. ^ Kenneth, R.; Ciccarone, Antonio (1976). "Professor Israel Reichert in Memoriam". Phytoparasitica. 4: 71–73. doi:10.1007/BF02981082. S2CID 39705499.
  3. ^ "Israel Prize recipients in 1955 (in Hebrew)". cms.education.gov.il (Israel Prize official website). Archived from the original on June 12, 2012.
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Reichert.

See also[edit]

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