Hans Conrad Schellenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hans Conrad Schellenberg

Swiss botanist and university teacher (1872-1923)

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1872

Place of Birth: Hottingen, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Date of Death: 27-Oct-1923

Profession: university teacher, botanist, mycologist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.His primary focus was in the areas of plant pathology 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 Zürich, aged 51.