Aryeh Leo Olitzki

Aryeh Leo Olitzki אריה ליאו אוליצקי
Born	4 June 1898 Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany
Died	1983 (aged 84 or 85) Israel
Citizenship	Israeli
Notable awards	Israel Prize (1967)

Aryeh Leo Olitzki (Hebrew: אריה ליאו אוליצקי‎; born 4 June 1898, died 1983) was an Israeli bacteriologist.

Biography

Olitzki was born in 1898 in Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany (now Olsztyn, Poland). He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, and was appointed as assistant in the Institute of Hygiene of the University of Breslau, from where he obtained his doctorate.

In 1924, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine.

Olitzki headed the bacteriology laboratories at the Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem and in Safed.^[1] In 1928, he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and became a professor in 1949, and dean of the Medical School from 1961 to 1965.

Awards and honours

• In 1967, Olitzki was awarded the Israel Prize, in medicine.^[2]
• Olitzki Street in Beersheba is named after him.

Selected works

• Yesodot Torat ha-Ḥaidakkim ve-ha-Ḥasinut (A. L. Olitzki and N. Grossowicz), a textbook on microbiology and immunology in two volumes (1964–68)

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

References

1. ^ Hadassah Physicians Honored With the “Laureates in Medicine” Israel Prize Hadassah International, 20 June 2011
2. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1967 (in Hebrew)". http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashkag/Tashlab_Tashkag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashkaz. 

External Links

• Olitzki, Aryeh Leo (a biography) Jewish Virtual Library
• Antigenic Structures Of Haemophilus Aegyptius and Haemophilus Influenzae Demonstrated by the Gel Precipitation Technique, by Aryeh Leo Olitzki and Ada Sulitzeanu Journal of Bacteriology website

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Name	Olitzki, Aryeh Leo
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Date of birth	4 June 1898
Place of birth	Olsztyn, Germany
Date of death	1983
Place of death	Israel