Hillel Oppenheimer
Hillel Oppenheimer , Hebrew הלל אופנהיימר(born as Heinz Reinhard Oppenheimer, April 4, 1899 in Berlin ; died June 15, 1971 in Rehovot , Israel ), was a German-Israeli botanist. Its botanical author abbreviation is “ Oppenh. ".
Life
Heinz Reinhard Oppenheimer was one of several children of the sociologist Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943) and the singer Martha Amalia Oppenheim (1868–1949), his brother Ludwig Yehuda Oppenheimer (1897–1979) became an agricultural economist in Israel.
Oppenheimer studied biology in Berlin , Frankfurt am Main and Freiburg im Breisgau and received his doctorate in Vienna . As a Zionist , he emigrated to Palestine in 1925 . He first ran a nursery in the marshes of Sichron Jacob . From 1931 he was the first to teach plant physiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where the faculties of natural sciences and agricultural sciences had yet to be established. From 1933 to 1941 he headed the Department of Physiology and Genetics at the Agricultural Research Center in Rehovot . From 1941 to 1953 he headed the Department of Agricultural Botany and Citrus Plants in Jerusalem. In 1949 he was appointed professor and in the academic year 1953 he was dean of the Agricultural Faculty of the Hebrew University. Oppenheimer founded the Palestine Journal of Botany (Hebrew).
In 1959 Oppenheimer was awarded the Israel Prize in the agriculture category.
Fonts (selection)
- Knowledge of the midsummer water balance of Mediterranean trees , in: Reports of the German Botanical Society, 1932, pp. 185–245
- Mechanisms of drought resistance in conifers of the Mediterranean Zone and the arid West of the USA: part 1, physiological and anatomical investigations . Rehovot: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1967 OCLC 2762237
literature
- Gottwalt Christian Hirsch : Oppenheimer, Heinz Reinhard . In: Index Biologorum. Inverstigatores Laboratoria Periodica. Editio Prima, Springer, Berlin 1928, p. 220
Web links
- Literature by and about Oppenheimer, Hillel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Hillel Oppenheimer , at The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Hillel Oppenheimer at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ^ Palestine Journal of Botany , published 1935-1953, ISSN 0370-0186
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oppenheimer, Hillel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oppenheimer, Heinz Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th June 1971 |
| Place of death | Rehovot |