Johanna Westerdijk

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Johanna Westerdijk

Johanna Westerdijk (born January 4, 1883 in Nieuwer-Amstel , † November 15, 1961 in Baarn ) was a Dutch botanist and professor of phytopathology at the University of Utrecht . Its botanical abbreviation is “ Westerd. ".

Life

Johanna Westerdijk was born to Bernard Westerdijk and Aleida Catharina Scheffer. She studied in Amsterdam with Hugo de Vries , where she completed her studies in botany and zoology in 1904. She then conducted research in Munich with the botanist Karl Ritter von Goebel on liverworts and received her doctorate in 1906 in Zurich with Hans Schinz on mosses.

At the age of 23, she succeeded Jan Ritzema Bos in 1906 as director of the Willie Commelin Scholten phytopathological laboratory and held this position until 1952. From 1913 Westerdijk went on study trips to the Dutch East Indies, Japan, the USA, Portugal and South Africa. In 1917 she was appointed associate professor of phytopathology at the University of Utrecht, becoming the first female professor in the Netherlands. In 1930 she also became an associate professor of phytopathology at the University of Amsterdam .

Westerdijk has done a lot of research on Dutch elm disease . It showed that the fungus Ceratocystis ulmi caused the death of the elm.

Honors and memberships

  • 1951 member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1953 Otto Appel commemorative coin
  • 1957 Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University
  • 1958 Honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen
  • Member of the Linnean Society of London
  • Bearer of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Officer)
  • Bearer of the Order of the Dutch Lion (Knight)

Fonts (selection)

  • For the regeneration of the moss, 1906
  • Die nieuwe because of van het phytopathologische onderzoek, 1917
  • Relations between horticulture and plantpathology, 1923

literature

  • European Commission: Women in science , Luxemburg, 2009 p. 122 ff. Online
  • Patricia Faasse: Een beetje opstandigheid. Johanna Westerdijk. De eerste vrouwelijke hoogleraar van Nederland , Atlas Contact, 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westerdijk, Johanna (1883–1961) in the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), accessed on February 10, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Westerdijk, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch phytopathologist and first female professor in the Netherlands
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieuwer-Amstel , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1961
Place of death Baarn , Netherlands